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Terms & Concepts

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Cogent argument

An evaluation concept of inductive logic. An argument is cogent when it is strong and the premises are true. https://youtube.com/shorts/Hk7mp35xVsQ?feature=share
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Primary qualities

Those qualities that inhere in, or are inextricable from, their object. https://youtube.com/shorts/7N5v1v0udVI?feature=share
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Realism

The view that reality is objective. https://youtube.com/shorts/8cy_iHdZlM0?feature=share
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Indirect proof
C
Categorical syllogism
S
Sound
I
Inconsistent
C
Conjunction introduction
M
Materialism
P
Principle of induction
I
Idea
E
Equality
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