Fallacies
"Do you hate me?"
"No."
"How wonderful! You love me!"
The smaller category encompassed by the word "genus".
What is species?
The term in a syllogism that is dropped out before the conclusion is articulated.
What is the middle term?
The name for two seemingly identical terms, but which have completely different meanings.
What is equivocal?
According to this "Enlightenment philosopher", it is not possible to know universals-- only particulars.
Who is Hume?
"The accused will be given a fair trial before he is hanged."
What is begging the question?
The name for the other nine accidents of the ten categories that aren't substance.
What is accidents?
The predicate of the conclusion.
What is a major term?
Because the term "father" depends upon the idea of another concept ("child"), it is not absolute, but this...
What is relative?
The view that the ultimate natures of things reside in a realm beyond the world of our ordinary experience.
What is Platonic Realism (or Extreme Realism)?
The fallacy which confuses cause and effect for something which merely happened before or after.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc?
What is the fact that a property stems from a thing's nature?
The letter corresponding to a particular negative proposition.
What is "O"?
The terms in the following sentence:
"I love ice cream and I love you."
What is analogical?
The correspondence of a proposition to reality.
What is truth?
"Do you support the right of a woman to freely choose whether or not to carry her pregnancy to term?"
versus:
"Do you support the right to life of all human beings at all stages of development from conception to natural death?"
What is slanting the question?
The category which has to do with what happens or is done to a subject.
What is passion?
The second act of the mind in language.
What is "declarative sentence"?
Because it isn't a collective term, this is what the term below is.
"None of my philosophy courses is easy."
What is divisive?
The name for the school of thought that claims that natures don't exist in things, and that we merely assign arbitrary natures ourselves.
What is Nominalism?
"If the Italians had believed in clocks,... Hitler would have taken over the world."
What is hypothesis contrary to fact?
The category that has to do with what a thing is wearing.
What is possession?
What is a disjunctive syllogism?
A complicated word for a simple idea. The term below:
"The Dolphins are/were a football team."
What is syncategoregmatic?
The position that states that we can actually know about things outside of our own minds.
What is Epistemological Realism?