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PHIL 100 

Thinking Things Through
 

 List of Central Concepts
and Terminology


Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
 
 
 
 
proof
Platonic Forms
combinatorics
universe of discourse
(domain)
validity
properties
(attributes)
ordered pair
complement
soundness
Aristotelian
matter + form
unordered pair
field of sets
deductive argument
formal cause
analysis & synthesis
power set
inductive argument
material cause
clear and distinct idea
set union
Socratic Method
efficient cause
cogito ergo sum
set intersection
necessitate
final cause
binomial theorem
isomorphic
premises
potential vs. actual
algorithm
Boolean algebra
reductio ad absurdum
essential property
monad
2-element 
Boolean algebra
cardinality
accidental property
metaphysics
 truth value
(of a sentence)
power set
quantifier
epistemology
 normative
one-to-one mapping
syllogism
the "IDEA" idea 
 entailment
 QED
conditional
 
 
 ampliative
modus ponens
 
 
 erosion-proof
modus tollens
 
 



Chapter 5
Chapter 7
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
 
     
matters of fact
Baconian induction
transcendental 
deduction
JTB account
of knowledge
relations among ideas
Newton's rotating bucket 
thought experiment
concepts of the 
understanding
Gettier examples
analytic
ancient inductive skepticism
Kant's system
straight rule of induction
synthetic
verifiable
construction
probabilities
a priori
falsifiable
synthesis
relative frequencies
a posteriori
decidable
Carnap's "Logical Construction 
of the World"
pragmatic vindication of induction
 Kant's
form of experience
Hume's inductive skepticism
conventionalism
Putnam's criterion
logicism
metaphysical skepticism
incommensurable
 
variable
mark, or criterion, of truth
conceptual scheme
 
function
 
conceptual relativism
 
sense
     
reference
     
truth
     
quantifier: 
universal, existential
     

 

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