General philosophy

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Dialectic

Philosophy; General philosophy

The process, particularly employed in Plato's dialogues, of discovering first principles, or underlying realities, through digging out, possibly through Socratic questioning of another, what is ...

Deontological

Philosophy; General philosophy

(De=obligation + logical) A deontological ethics is one that claims that it is something in the nature or structure of actions that makes them obligatory or impermissible (essentially ignoring ...

A presumably valid argument in which the argument proceeds from premises to conclusion in such a way that if the premisses are true, the conclusion absolutely must be true. An inductive argument is ...

Decidibility

Philosophy; General philosophy

A (logical) language is said to be decidable if and only if all of its theorems (or logical truths) can be shown to be true through a finite mechanical procedure. Propositional logic is decidable; ...

Contingent

Philosophy; General philosophy

A sentence proposition, thought or judgement is contingent if it is true of this actual world, though it is not true in all possible worlds. Some philosophers claim that contingent, a posterori, and ...

Antinomy

Philosophy; General philosophy

Kant believed that when reason goes beyond possible experience it often falls into various antinomies, or equally rational but contradictory views. Reason cannot here play the role of establishing ...

Completeness

Philosophy; General philosophy

A (logical) language is said to be complete if and only if all the formulas in the language that must be true (in any world in which the axioms of the language are true) can be proved from the ...