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Although mostly associated with the logical analysis of language, analytic philosophy began in the philosophy of mathematics. Working independently, both Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell pursued programs of reducing mathematics…
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Many of the topics within the philosophy of science overlap with topics in metaphysics, epistemology, and the philosophy of language insofar as they apply within our scientific practice. Metaphysical issues,…
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The French Revolution sparked legal and political reforms across Europe, which brought with them their accompanying philosophical frameworks.
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Terms & Concepts

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Ambiguity

A property of a sentence in natural (or “ordinary”) language that has two or more meanings. The multiple meanings are the result either of using a word in more than…
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Derivation

A formal proof enlisting logical rules. https://youtube.com/shorts/v8VC3PLOu3s?feature=share
H

Hypothetical imperative

That which commands hypothetically, asserted in the form of a conditional claim, as in, “If you want X, you should do Y.” (See also Categorical imperative.) https://youtube.com/shorts/54vdJzdmc1w?feature=share
R
Rights
U
Underdetermination
Z
Zoroastrianism
R
Red herring
S
Sorites Paradox
B
Brentano’s Thesis
C
Cosmogony
D
Dialetheism
T
Transcendental argument
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