Terms
A litter of puppies was carried in a litter through the litter-strewn streets.
What is "equivocation"?
I don't comb my hair because "my body my choice."
What is "slogan"?
The critique of this definition: "a bird is a flying creature".
What is "too broad"?
The part of the proposition underlined:
Dogs are canine creatures.
What is "subject"?
Platonism taught that essences exist not in things themselves, but in this philosophical realm.
What is "the realm of the Forms"?
Our word for what a "term" is when it exists "in the mind".
What is "concept"?
Don't listen to anything he has to say; he's just a musician.
What is "ad hominem"?
The critique of this definition: "an umbrella is an eclipse for the rain."
What is "metaphorical"?
The type of proposition illustrated here:
"No shellfish are birds."
What is "E" or "Universal Negative"?
Nominalism answers this way the question about the existence of essences.
What is "they don't exist at all"?
"The whole of the Atlantean populace" treated as a single term.
What is "complex"?
"Thou shalt not kill", so you shouldn't swat mosquitoes.
What is "quoting out of context"?
The definition is a definition according to this cause.
"An body is a conglomeration of organs"
What is "material"?
What is "no horses are firemen"?
One who supposes that only material reality exists commits this metaphysical fallacy.
What is "materialism" (or "reductionism")?
The general name for the 9 categories that aren't "substance".
What is "accident"?
I'll give the liar the benefit of the doubt.
What is "begging the question"?
"A bookshelf is an object that hurts when it falls on you."
What is "definition by effect"?
When translated out of strict logical form, this may read "In the beginning there was no baseball".
What is "No [baseball] is [tw was in the beginning]"?
This argument is made to discount the possibility of coming to abstract universal truths based on induction.
What is "you can always observe more instances of a thing"?
Predicables:
"of a king" in Regicide is the murder of a king.
What is "specific difference"?
...I mean, nobody has seen Bruce Banner and Superman in the same room together at the same time...
What is "argument from igorance" (or "argument from silence")?
"Law is...an ordinance of reason for the common good" (Aquinas)
What is "essential definition"?
The position of the subject circle in the Euler diagram relative to the predicate circle for this proposition:
Well, all sandwiches aren't paninis.
What is "partly within the predicate circle and partly outside"?
This argument refutes the nominalistic claim that there is no abstract essence of "trees", but only individual and categorically distinct "trees" here and there.
What is "you refer to them all by the same name, implying a common essence"?