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Will

The faculty, or power, of choosing, deciding, and acting. https://youtube.com/shorts/41RKsgm3wyg?feature=share
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Hermeneutics

Theory of interpretation (originally applied to incomplete texts) that acknowledges how interpretation of individual words depends upon the interpretation of the whole text, and viceversa (the so-called Hermeneutic Circle); this…
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Presupposition

The requirement for a statement to have a truth value; that is, to be a claim. Also: that which is presupposed. https://youtube.com/shorts/T2VwFpbGPWw?feature=share
E
Entitlement
L
Law (in society)
E
Egoism (or psychological egoism)
A
Absolute time
A
Analytic-synthetic distinction
B
Biconditional elimination
S
Slave morality
C
Counterfactual
C
Complement
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