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The glossary contains some general key concepts from philosophy.

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Deductivism is the thesis that science should focus solely on deductive arguments rather than inductive arguments because there is no good response to the problem of induction. Deductivism is most ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

The cosmos is the universe considered as an integrated orderly system. Sometimes the cosmos is the orderly part of a larger whole, the other part being chaos. Any account of the origin of the ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

A conditional is a kind of statement that is made out of two others. The normal form of the statement is "If P then Q." P is the antecendt and Q the consequent. "If P, Q" and "Q, if P" are stylistic ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: Logic

Behaviorism is used in somewhat different senses in psychology and philosophy. In psychology, behaviorism was a twentieth-century movement that maintained that the study of behavior is the best or ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

The view that there are some types of action that are strictly prohibited by morality, no matter what the specific facts are in particular case. Some have held, for example, that the intentional ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

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