Questions tagged [terminology]
The study of terms and their use.
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How do we actually reason/think/comprehend about nothing?
I know it has been an age old topic of discussion, 'can we imagine nothing', 'why something rather than nothing', but recently I stumbled upon this thought that 'absolute nothing' isn't even ...
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Origin of the Popular Distinction Between Morals and Ethics
Something that I've noticed is that, although it seems relatively rare for philosophers to make substantive distinctions between "Morals" and "Ethics," this distinction is ...
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Syncretism vs. Synthesis
I have encountered some difficulty in distinguishing between the concepts of syncretism and synthesis. My understanding (based on a brief study of dialectal thinking) is that synthesis constitutes the ...
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Is there consensus whether function or predicate/relation is the more basic notion, particularly in the philosophy of mathematics?
So, usually in logics and mathematics in general, both concepts are introduced.
In set theory a function can be defined as a triple of two sets and a relation (which itself is defined as a pair of ...
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How can one determine the ontological statuses of variable and constants in this type theory?
I am reading the book "Type theory and formal proof" by Rob Nederpelt, Herman Geuvers.
Chapter 2 "Simply typed lambda calculus"
Section 2.2 "Simple types" says "We ...
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Meaning of the word «ἀδιάφορα» among the Stoics
Dictionaries translate (in Stoic context) this word as «indifferent things» that is, neither good nor evil. In this meaning they also say «οὐδέτερος».
Epictetus «The discourses» Book 1, Chapter XX:
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Can plagiarism and inspiration be objectively differentiated in case of philosophical ideas, arguments? [closed]
I want to know can it be defined objectively what is inspiration and plagiarism in context of philosophical ideas .
Because a person can just copy idea of others and just explain it trough different ...
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Looking for a term for “in accordance with human experience”
I’d like to discuss a concept. Suppose we say: “We infer its truth because it is in accordance with human experience.”
Is there a philosophical term for this idea of being “in accordance with human ...
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What is the pre-model or very early step in mathematical modeling term for this? [closed]
When your science teacher first teaches you temperatures in real numbers, I don’t understand this as modeling. Or using real numbers for distance in intro physics. Things before we have used math to ...
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What is the term for the concept that a word exclude all other things rather than designate the thing being named?
I read it somewhere on line but can no longer place it. Example given there was of a cow that instead of cow (word) means cow (thing), cow (word) means negation of all things except cow. Or something ...
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What did Quine mean with the word "ponential" in Mathematical Logic?
Mathematical Logic Revised Edition 1951 on page 306 at the beginning of §59 has:
"Just as the theorems of logic comprised the ponentials of ponentials of ... axioms of quantification and axioms ...
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Confusion in regards to a passage in "Introduction to Logic" by Alfred Tarski
PASSAGE OF THE BOOK IN QUESTION:
When we set out to construct a given discipline, we distinguish, first of all, a certain small group of expressions of this discipline that seem to us to be ...
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Who should we call "a mystic" [closed]
In Philosophy, there is historically some writing about Mysticism, for better or worse. This implies the label "mystic" for certain people. This question is about that label. E.g. see the ...
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What is active vs. passive potency?
In Latin, potentia means "potentiality" (something passive/receptive to an agent/actualizer), but why does it also have the sense of "power" (something active)?
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What is the difference between reason and rationality?
What is the difference between reason and rationality?
Is there an example of something resulting from the use of reason that is not rational? Is there an example of something resulting from the use ...
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