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Argument
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When a person gives reasons for believing something, we say that the person is arguing. More precisely, an argument is a collection of statements of which it is intended that one, called the conclusion, is supported by others, called premises.
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SOUND ARGUMENT
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An argument that is valid and that has all true premises is called a sound argument.
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VALID ARGUMENT
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an argument can only be valid if (assuming the premises are true) there is no possibility, however remote or ridiculous, that the conclusion is false.
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ANALYTICALLY TRUE
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A statement is analytically true (or analytically false) if its truth (or falsity) can be determined by considering only definitions and the laws of logic
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SYNTHETIC
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Statements that are not analytic are said to be synthetic
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STIPULATIVE DEFINITION
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introducing a technical term such as work by explaining how the term will be used is giving a stipulative definition
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DESCRIPTIVE DEFINITION
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Descriptions of how words are conventionally used, as are typically found in dictionaries, are descriptive definitions.
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MISOLOGY
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The hate of arguments.
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SCHOLASTICISM
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Scholasticism, which was primarily the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas, was a broad synthesis of Christianity and Aristotelian philosophy.
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NATURAL THEOLOGY
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Those aspects of religion that were believed to be provable by reason alone, and so were not a matter of faith or revelation, were referred to as natural theology.
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PRIMARY QUALITIES
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Primary qualities are qualities that awaken in us ideas that resemble the objects with those qualities (for example, shape and size)
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SECONDARY QUALITIES
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Secondary qualities are qualities that awaken in us ideas which are not like anything in the object itself (for example, color and taste).
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