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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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Is for-itself simply in-itself-and-for-other in Hegel's Science of Logic?
I have been going through Hegel's Doctrine of Being, and have started rewriting it in my own words, as that usually helps me understand something.
In so doing, I created a (new?) suffix: -in-itself-...
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Seeking name of method for interpreting reality of phenomena as only a result or emanation of a more meaningful higher system/agent
I have noticed that a method of interpreting evidence according to a higher system/agent is important to some theology and philosophy - for example, Plato's theory of forms used to interpret material ...
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Names for most popular taxonomies of informal fallacies?
Informal fallacies are not formal, so as might be expected, there exists no prevailing standard taxonomy. Various books on logic and logical fallacies organize fallacies differently (see chapter ...
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Can logical assertions be read as not having some or any implications?
Is there a way to restrict the implication of a claim? In other words, is it possible to express truths in logic that do not have logical implications, and if so does this have a name in logic and ...
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How to understand connecessity(?)?
Not quite following Messina and Rutherford[??], I assume that compossibility for propositions/factsF A and B is when:
A, B are compossible when A ∧ B is possible.
So I assume there is a slot to be ...
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Is the mass/count-noun distinction the same as the continuous/discrete one?
Justification for this as a PhilosophySE questions: there are two SEP articles concerning this topic:
The Logic of Mass Expressions (Nicolas[18]).
The Metaphysics of Mass Expressions (Steen[22]).
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"Truth" as a description of our cognition versus "truth" as a description of reality
In reading about the feud of foundationalism, infinitism and coherentism, there seems to be some arguments based on how cognition/reasoning works. However, an argument of the form (vaguely put by me) ...
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What does meaning-scepticism mean?
I found the term in The Limits of Realism (Tim Button) (2013) on page 2:
We are, then, looking for an argument that forces realists to consider
semantic questions. A natural place to look is in the ...
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What is the terminology to qualify things that are not reduced when shared (ideas vs physical objects)?
Is there a defined terminology to refer to things:
Which gets "reduced" when shared: for example if I have 2 apples and I give you one, now I have one apple
Which stays the same when shared:...
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Are the terms formula and algorithm synonymous in formal logic?
How to do something in two or more steps would feel/grasped to me as pretty much matching the common usages of both terms, but to find possible nuances common in the philosophical literature in ...
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Are many razors subsets of Occam's
Looking at the list of razors, it seems quite a few are defining which truth is simple and should be assumed rather than a different option. Be it conversational implication over semantic context, or ...
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Hypothesis and thesis
Hypothesis means several things, but I think (and Wikipedia roughly agrees) that there are two main senses:
A. Epistemological - a tentative affirmation, posed as explanation for a phenomenon. In the ...
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What's the correct term or phrase for "Breaking a complex problem down into its fundamental tenets"?
Any problem I encounter, I distill down into fundamental tenets to create a model where the relationships between the distinct components of the problem are clear and more easily defined / discussed.
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what do you call a logical argument between 2 people who hav personal grudges? Its opposite of Ad Hominem bt not Inverse Ad Hominem. what's it called?
If A and B already have personal grudges but keep that aside, they are discussing a subject and a conflict erupts argument. Their points are based on the subject only and nothing personal but the heat ...
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