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Indiscernibility of Identicals | if x and y are the same then they share the same properties | The view that identity is a defining characteristic | 4,814 |
Chinese room argument | John Searle's argument against the computational theory of mind | Chinese ethics | 10,278 |
Kripkenstein | Saul Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein | A German monster | 6,509 |
Pascal's wager | Believing in God based on prudential reasoning | Pascal loves gaming | 8,872 |
Hans Jonas | Author of "The imperative of responsibility" | Hans Zimmer | 10,878 |
Cancellability test | A given implication is an implicature only if it can be denied without contradiction | The test of whether an event can be cancelled | 5,199 |
Every | Nothing is not | Some | 1,848 |
implies | has as its deductive consequence that | conveys implicitly | 8,186 |
Teleological | Purposive | Theological | 2,769 |
being greater than which none can be conceived | god | Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory | 11,584 |
qualitative ideological parsimony | minimize the number of ideological kinds used in a theory | minimize the number of kinds of things that the theory posits | 7,256 |
supererogatory | going beyond the call of duty | very erogenous | 3,092 |
Double-slit experiment | Interference pattern from superposition | Photoelectric effect | 9,398 |
X is a necessary condition of Y | Y is conditional upon there being X for Y to be considered Y | Y is important for X to exist | 6,100 |
ethical intuitionism | intuitions can allow us to get closer to objective moral truth | moral intuition is infallible | 7,051 |
Speech report | Saying what someone said | News about speeches | 508 |
dialectic | the dialogical process of reasoning | arguing | 1,403 |
Samsara | Cycle of birth and death | Worldly affairs | 7,872 |
pro attitude | favorable disposition | professional attitude | 7,503 |
beliefs have propositional content | beliefs can be true or false | beliefs are propositions | 1,275 |
A book by Immanuel Kant in which Kant lays bare the fundamental principle of morality and show that it applies to us | Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals | The fundamental principle of morality by Immanuel Kant | 10,610 |
Phenomenal properties supervene on intentional properties. | There can be no difference in phenomenal properties without a corresponding difference in intentional properties. | Phenomenal properties are independent of intentional properties. | 4,407 |
four-dimensionalism | the view that all objects have temporal parts extended through time | three-dimensionalism | 8,655 |
A zombie would be indistinguishable from me | A physical duplicate without consciousness would be indistinguishable from me | A monster would be indistinguishable from me | 5,832 |
Vacuous truth | True because of a logical feature | Empty vacuum bag | 7,309 |
Epistemic conservatism | Belief preservation | Political conservatism | 5,940 |
agape | Christian love | open-mouthed | 745 |
Indirect derivation | Reductio | Direct derivation | 2,723 |
E = K thesis | the view that one's evidence is all and only one's knowledge | Energy = Kinetic energy thesis | 6,998 |
intentional attitudes | things like beliefs and desires | intensional attitudes | 3,345 |
Objectivism about X | Theory that statements about X express mind-independent facts about the world | Theory that X is a desirable objective | 10,578 |
noumena | Thing in itself | substance | 283 |
A philosopher is making an analytic claim | The truth or falsity of the philosopher's claim cannot be determined by specific experience | The philosopher applies the law of simplification | 11,622 |
mysterianism | the view that humans cannot understand consciousness | the view that the universe is mysterious | 5,697 |
moving spotlight theory | eternalist a-theory of time | stage lighting | 5,114 |
Sobel sequence | a sequence a counterfactuals such that each counterfactual p>q is followed by a counterfactual (p&r)>q with the opposite truth value | a sequence of people, each of whom is Sobel | 5,470 |
The fallacy of composition | The part-whole fallacy | The quantifier shift fallacy | 1,426 |
intellectual humility | owing limitations | disposed to refer to the senior | 5,745 |
Theism | High confidence in the existence of god | Theocratic governance | 8,884 |
open-domain AI hallucinations | AI hallucinations stating incorrect information about the world | hallucination | 8,956 |
Meaning is use | The idea that what determines what words mean is how speakers in practice use them | The idea that using something is more significant than not using it | 495 |
positive epistemic duty | an obligation to believe something based on evidential considerations | the duty to be positively epistemic | 7,728 |
just in case | if and only if | a case in which Justin finds a drowning child | 7,038 |
linguistic indexicals | me, you, i, he, here, etc | the linguistics of indexes | 9,311 |
Wronging an agent in virtue of holding a belief | Doxastic wrong | Doxastic attitudes, beliefs, credences, etc. | 9,977 |
intentional | deliberate | intensional | 6,109 |
Each of us is a distinct soul | Each of us is immaterial | Each of us is special | 6,302 |
moral error theory | moral nihilism | there is no moral truth | 9,852 |
utilitarianism | consequentialism | moralism | 1,037 |
Repugnant conclusion | Many barely tolerable lives preferable to fewer excellent lives | Disgusting inference | 6,255 |
dominant | hegemonic | authoritative | 6,130 |
permissible to | not required not to | obligatory to | 5,391 |
Feminist Epistemology | Gender influences one's concept of knowledge | Men and women have different knowledge | 9,871 |
primitive | unanalyzable | simplistic | 6,535 |
reincarnation | metempsychosis | resurrection | 2,906 |
Introspection | Knowledge of one's own mental states | Shy person | 9,517 |
Johannes Climacus | Johannes de Silentio | Johannes Vigilius | 4,245 |
utilitarianism | the view that the morally right action is the action that produces the most good | deontology | 10,934 |
intentionality | aboutness | intending | 263 |
de dicto and de re | by description and by direct reference | dictate and read | 5,501 |
dialetheism | true contradictions | logic | 4,538 |
Ampère's law | Magnetic field from electric current | Hooke's law | 9,479 |
Individualism | The idea that individual autonomy and welfare should be prioritised | Individualism is dangerous | 11,799 |
emotivism | theory that ethical judgments are primarily expressions of one's own attitude | theory that all humans portray emotions | 8,743 |
Transcendental | critical examination of the human mind from within the boundaries of human reason | Supernatural | 1,334 |
The Problem of Easy Knowledge | Challenges in Obtaining Knowledge Too Easily | Simple Solutions in Knowledge Management | 7,661 |
hedonism | only pleasure is good | self-indulgence | 2,351 |
Representational knowledge | Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature | Representational art | 1,706 |
zombie | physical duplicate without conscious experience | living dead | 11,422 |
De Morgan Law | The negation of "P and Q" is equivalent to "not P or not Q", the negation of "P or Q" is equivalent to "not P and not Q". | negation | 9,678 |
a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy and especially anglophone philosophy, focused on analysis | Analytic philosophy | a broad, contemporary movement or tradition within Western philosophy and especially anglophone philosophy focused on maximizing utility over all time | 3,562 |
bivalence | law of excluded middle | ambivalence | 1,948 |
Existentialism | Philosophy of Existence | Empiricism | 3,213 |
race essentialism | the view that race has objective reality | the view that all people of the same race are stereotypical | 6,508 |
possible worlds | possibilities | other actual worlds | 11,296 |
Environmentalism | Environmental ethics | Anthropocentrism | 4,547 |
Discourse Ethics | Moral reasoning through open dialogue and argumentation | Utilitarianism | 4,559 |
personal identity | what am I? | documentation you have about your demographics | 8,769 |
context-sensitive | context-dependent | relative | 3,395 |
Counterfactual conditional | Subjunctive conditional | Indicative conditional | 5,314 |
retributivism | deserved suffering or punishment is intrinsically valuable | from each according to merit, to each according to need | 6,570 |
Moral encroachment on belief | The thesis that moral considerations can affect whether one can rationally believe something | When you believe something, but it's morally wrong to do so | 9,715 |
Hedonic states | Pain and pleasure | Hedonist state | 5,333 |
Rigidity | Invariance with respect to possible worlds | Hard to break | 542 |
absurdist philosopher | Camus | Sarte | 11,196 |
indirect realism | we perceive external objects in virtue of perceiving mental objects | direct idealism | 11,171 |
eudaimonia | flourishing | happiness | 6,270 |
MOP | mode of presentation | broom | 5,600 |
Russell's paradox | the Russell-Zermelo paradox | paradox | 11,245 |
relationalism | relational theory of spacetime | relativism | 6,075 |
no report paradigm | Sperling experiment | silent treatment | 5,608 |
circular reasoning | circular logic | round reasoning | 10,996 |
Animals can communicate | Animals send honest signals which cannot be subverted | Animals talk to one another | 7,852 |
knowledge, for John Dewey | the product of competent inquiries | objectively true belief | 10,956 |
erotetic logic | the logical analysis of questions | asking questions in an erotetic fashion about logic | 6,321 |
peripatetic | Aristotelian | related to walking | 8,161 |
model theory | universal algebra plus logic | first order logic | 2,737 |
James Gibson argued that perception is direct | The founder of ecological psychology argued that perception is direct | John Garfield argued that perception is direct | 6,844 |
Plato's tripartite division of the soul | beast, lion, human | tyrant, king, democratic man | 10,741 |
hedonism | identifying pleasure with the good | seeking pleasure | 6,238 |