Chapter 1 Glossary

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   absolutism (or objectivism)
   accent
   accident
   ad hominem (or ad personam) argument
   affirming the consequent.
   ahimsa (noninjury)
   amphiboly
   analogy
   analytic method
   analytic philosophy
   appeal to authority
   appeal to common practice
   appeal to force
   appeal to ignorance
   appeal to pity
   appeal to the people (or to the gallery)
   argument by analogy
   argument from enumeration
   argument from error (or illusion)
   argument
   begging the question
   biased sample
   cogent argument
   coherence theory of truth
   complex question
   composition
   conclusion
   concordance
   contextualism
   correspondence theory
   counterexample
   deconstruction
   deductively valid argument
   demonstrative premise
   denying the antecedent.
   dialectic
   dialectical premise
   division
   epistemology
   equivocation
   ethics
   evidence
   fallacy
   fallibilism
   false cause
   formal fallacy
   functionalism
   hasty generalization
   historicism
   holism
   idealism
   ideal limit
   ignoratio elenchi
   incomplete enumeration
   induction
   inductively strong (or reliable) argument.
   informal fallacy.
   junzi
   liar sentence
   logical atomism
   maybeism
   metalanguage
   metaphysics
   misapplication
   naya
   nonabsolutism
   noninjury (ahimsa)
   object language
   objectivism
   perspectivism
   philosophical theory of truth
   post hoc ergo propter hoc
   premise
   pre-Socratics
   red herring
   relativism
   representative sample
   semantic theory of truth
   socratic method
   statement
   straw man
   superior person
   syat
   syllogism
   target sentences
   tu quoque

 

     


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