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Is there a term for the fact that it may need more information to describe a probability distribution than conveyed by the event itself?
For example, X is a random integer from 1 to 16. Now I get a piece of information: X is 3, 5, 9, or 14. This has 2 bits of information for the knowledge about X. But if the list of options is random ...
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Term for a Question based an a Fundamental Misunderstanding
Look at the question, 'According to Kantian ethics, how do you weight the value of pleasurable art against medical necessities?' The hypothetical speaker has a fundamental misunderstanding of Kantian ...
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Does introspection provide strong evidence for weak forms of solipsism and idealism? Are not all philosophical distinctions mind-dependent objects?
Philosophy in One Lecture
Daniel Bonevac:
https://youtu.be/AycTgPJtBP0
In this video lecture Daniel draws two stick figures on the blackboard, representing two human bodies, and attached to each ...
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Gnosis vs. Episteme - Is there a change over time periods in Ancient Greek Philosophy?
"Episteme" is the word of choice in Plato, generally (although there are a few instances of "Gnosis" here and there)
By contrast, "Gnosis" is far more frequent among ...
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Names for most popular taxonomies of informal fallacies?
Informal fallacies are not formal, so as might be expected, there exists no prevailing standard taxonomy. Various books on logic and logical fallacies organize fallacies differently (see chapter ...
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Is the mass/count-noun distinction the same as the continuous/discrete one?
Justification for this as a PhilosophySE questions: there are two SEP articles concerning this topic:
The Logic of Mass Expressions (Nicolas[18]).
The Metaphysics of Mass Expressions (Steen[22]).
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"Truth" as a description of our cognition versus "truth" as a description of reality
In reading about the feud of foundationalism, infinitism and coherentism, there seems to be some arguments based on how cognition/reasoning works. However, an argument of the form (vaguely put by me) ...
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What does meaning-scepticism mean?
I found the term in The Limits of Realism (Tim Button) (2013) on page 2:
We are, then, looking for an argument that forces realists to consider
semantic questions. A natural place to look is in the ...
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What is the terminology to qualify things that are not reduced when shared (ideas vs physical objects)?
Is there a defined terminology to refer to things:
Which gets "reduced" when shared: for example if I have 2 apples and I give you one, now I have one apple
Which stays the same when shared:...
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Are the terms formula and algorithm synonymous in formal logic?
How to do something in two or more steps would feel/grasped to me as pretty much matching the common usages of both terms, but to find possible nuances common in the philosophical literature in ...
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Question about Russell's distinction between knowledge of things and knowledge of truths in 'The Problems of Philosophy'
In his book, Russell distinguishes several types of knowledge. He first distinguishes knowledge of truths, and of things.
"the sense in which what we know is true (...) i.e. to what are called ...
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What is the difference between world and universe?
I encounter the terms "world" and "universe" in various types of philosophy. I haven't paid close attention, but it seems "world" is used more phenomenologically and ...
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The name for an anticipatory counter-argument?
There's the argument ad absurdum along with several other kind of reasoning.
What is the name for a forestalling counter-argument - an argument put forward pre-emptively in anticipation of an ...
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Which philosophy views "value" as the god?
What spiritual philosophy does Robert Lawrence Kuhn describe here? This view says that everything exists because of the value of the totality of universe.
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Are many razors subsets of Occam's
Looking at the list of razors, it seems quite a few are defining which truth is simple and should be assumed rather than a different option. Be it conversational implication over semantic context, or ...
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