WELCOME
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INFO
This vault is maintained by geeslime. It was initially a clone of LiquidZulu's Obsidian vault — similarly hosted online at liquidzulu.github.io/brain (this vault can be seen as a less highly curated but more community-driven and diversified addition to his overall project).
CONTRIBUTING
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ALL NOTES LIST
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(Custom GPT) Objectivist Definition Finder | - | - |
Welcome Page | - | - |
Action (BPC) |
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Broad Physical Categories (BPC) |
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Causal Connections (BPC) |
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Characteristics vs. Properties (BPC) |
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Conditioning Connections (BPC) |
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Constituent and Composite Entities (BPC) |
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Entity and Property (BPC) |
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Four Conditioning Connections (BPC) |
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Matter and Form (BPC) |
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Material and Formal Entities (BPC) |
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Necessary Connections (BPC) |
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Relationship (BPC) |
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The Four Causes (BPC) |
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Austrian Economics |
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The Decivilizing Effect of Taxation |
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The Economic Calculation Problem |
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An Anthropogenic Theory of Value |
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Arbitrary |
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Dismissing the Arbitrary |
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Johnny Cochran at the O.J. Trial Claiming a Police Conspiracy |
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Past Lives as an Example of The Arbitrary |
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The Arbitrary as Neither True nor False |
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The Validation of Negative Propositions |
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Why The Onus of Proof Principle Does Not Apply Equally to Negatives |
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Evidence |
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Falsehood |
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Inference |
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Proposition |
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Refute |
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Proof |
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Self-Evident vs. Obvious |
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Sentences |
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Truth |
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Normativity |
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Generalization |
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The Plane Crash Example |
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Fallacy of Reification of the Zero |
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The Error in Regarding the Man-Made as Immutable |
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The Error in Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
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The Error of Conflating the Man-Made with the Metaphysically Given |
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The Impossibility of Unlimited Senses |
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All Knowledge is Either Perceptual or Conceptual |
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Different Forms of Sense Perception does not Invalidate Sense Perception |
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Different Forms of Sense Perception Lead to Different Capabilities in Deducing Laws |
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Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Fallibility of a Conceptual Consciousness |
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Focus as Antecedent to Any Choice |
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Floating Abstraction |
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Hallucinations do not Negate the Validity of the Senses |
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Illusions are not Perceptual Errors |
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Measurement Relationships |
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Onus of Proof Principle |
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Sensation |
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Sense Perception |
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Sensory Subjectivism |
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The Epistemic Primacy of Sense Perception |
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The Identity of Consciousness as the Root of Epistemology |
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The Invalidity of the Senses Implies The Invalidity of Knowledge |
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The Kantian Attack on Cognition |
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The Levels of Consciousness |
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The Objectivist Theory of Concepts |
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The Primary Choice Being Focus or Drift |
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The Role of the Senses |
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The Senses as Condensing Complex Information |
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The Senses as Distorted Implies Non-Consciousness |
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The Senses Do Not Distort |
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Epistemology |
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Logical Fallacies |
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Percept |
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Empiricism |
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Rationalism |
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Sensualism |
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Why Objectivism Rejects Agnosticism |
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The Validation of Sense Perception |
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Recklessness and Negligence |
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The Failure of Mixed Law |
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Man |
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Law |
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The Error of Conflating Ownership with Possesion |
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Rape Matrix |
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Austrian Economics versus Keynesian and Monetarist Macroeconomics |
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Anarcho-Capitalism |
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The Laws of Logic |
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Consciousness Has an Object and a Subject |
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Consciousness is a Biological Faculty |
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Consciousness is an Active Process |
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Non-Existence |
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Fact |
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A Consciousness Conscious Only of Itself |
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Four Fundamentals Characteristics of Consciousness |
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Forms of the Primacy of Consciousness |
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Primacy of the Social Consciousness |
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Primacy of the Personal Consciousness |
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Primacy of the Supernatural Consciousness |
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The Categories of Being |
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The Primacy of Existence as an Objectivist Innovation |
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A Baby-in-a-Womb as an Entity |
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Entity |
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Existence is Identity |
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Fire as a non-Entity |
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God as Infinite |
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How Much Time Has There Been |
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Infinity as a Floating Abstraction |
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Metaphysically Given |
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Miracles are a Metaphysical Impossibility |
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The Characteristics of Entities |
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The Error of Mechanistic Causality |
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The Fundamental Axioms of Metaphysics |
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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as a Refutation of Causality |
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The Metaphysically Given as Absolute |
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The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
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The Universe as Eternal |
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The Primacy of Consciousness as the Fundamental Error |
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Nominalism |
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The Psychological Effects of Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
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geeslime |
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LiquidZulu |
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Aristotle |
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Ayn Rand |
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Democritus |
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Hobbes |
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Leonard Peikoff |
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Marx |
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Protagoras |
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Plato |
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Skinner |
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Axioms as Irreducible Primaries |
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Bundled Philosophy |
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Axioms as Undeniable |
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Common Bromides |
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The Grand Canyon Argument |
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Corollary |
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Philosophy |
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Validation |
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Abstraction |
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Concepts of Consciousness as Involving Measurement-Omission |
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Conceptual Common Denominator |
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Conceptual Order |
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Epistemic Authoritarianism |
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Epistemic Units as Objective |
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Evasion |
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Innate Knowledge as a Violation of Causality |
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Libertarian Free Will |
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Mental Focus |
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Mental Focus as Having Degrees |
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Mystics of Spirit |
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Mysticism as Invalid |
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Naive Realism |
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The Attack on the Senses by Being Effects |
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The Attack on the Senses by Eddington's Two Tables |
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The Attack on the Senses from their Limitation |
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The Epistemic Sense of Objectivity |
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The Epistemic Role of Measurement |
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The Impossibility of Gaining Omniscence |
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The Interrelation of Evasion and Drift |
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The Locus of Human Free Will |
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The Objectivist Theory of Concept Formation as Valid |
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The Pre-Requisites of Epistemology |
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The Role of Definition for a Conceptual Being |
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The Role of Language for a Conceptual Being |
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The Secondary Choice Being The Choice to Think or Evade |
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The Secondary Choice as Being Motivated |
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The Sensory-Perceptual Level as Automatic |
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The Stolen Concept Fallacy |
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The Validation of Free Will |
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Concept |
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Conscious Action |
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Conscious Content |
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Consciousness |
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Definition |
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Differentiation |
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Free Will |
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Innate Ideas |
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Integration |
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Mysticism |
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Omniscience |
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Unit (Epistemology) |
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Naive Anarchism as a Package Deal |
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Commensurability |
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Concept-Formation as an Algebraic Process |
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The Differing Challenges of Explicating a Standard of Measurement |
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The Requirements of a Standard of Measurement |
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Measurement |
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The Determinist-Indeterminist False-Dichotomy |
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Companions in Guilt |
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The Conflation of Empiricism and Nominalism-Sensualism |
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Scientism |
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Objectivism |
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Argumentative Soundness |
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Argumentative Validity |
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A Physical Explanation for Consciousness or Free Will does not Negate Their Existence |
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Arguments from Defining God into Existence |
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Does Omnipotence Include The Ability to make Contradictions True |
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Examples of Entities |
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God as a Miracle-Worker |
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God as a Pure Self-Consciousness |
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God as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
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God as Omnipotent |
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God as the Creator |
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God as the Designer |
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Materialism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
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Objectivism does not Hold that Consciousness is an Entity |
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Rejections of the Basic Axioms |
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Spiritual vs Material |
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The Error of Conflating the Potential with the Actual |
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The Law of Causality |
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The Metaphysical Sense of Objectivity |
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The Mind-Body Conflict |
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Existence Exists |
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The Axiom of Consciousness |
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The Law of Identity |
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Metaphysics |
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Omnipotence |
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Consciousness as a non-Entity |
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Consciousness as Naturalistic |
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Consciousness as Unscientific Because it Cannot be Defined |
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Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Primacy of Existence |
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Idealism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
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Nominalism iff Sensualism |
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The Materialist-Idealist False Dichotomy |
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The Meaning of Objectivity |
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The Metaphysical Status of Concepts |
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The Primacy of Existence vs The Primacy of Consciousness |
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The Timaeus on the Imperfection of Reality |
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Idealism |
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A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
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A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate Their Existence |
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A Physical Description of Entities is the Realm of Physics, not Philosophy |
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Psuedoscience |
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Science |
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Addressing Fallibilism and Necessary Truths In General and In the Study of Man In Particular |
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Addressing the Attacks on Abstraction In General and In the Study of Man In Particular |
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The Empiricist Case for the Action Axiom |
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The Objectivist Case for the Validation of Praxeology |
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Human Action is Undeniable |
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Praxeology |
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Economics |
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Human Action |
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How Essential Is Praxeology to Philosophy |
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Psychological Inertia |
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Skyscrapers as the True Dimensions of Man |
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Evidence |
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Falsehood |
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Inference |
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Proposition |
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Refute |
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Proof |
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Self-Evident vs. Obvious |
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Sentences |
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Truth |
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Normativity |
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Generalization |
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Fallacy of the Misuse of the Mean |
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Epistemology |
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Logical Fallacies |
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Percept |
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Man |
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Rape Matrix |
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The Laws of Logic |
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Fact |
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Corollary |
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Philosophy |
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Validation |
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Concept |
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Conscious Action |
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Conscious Content |
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Consciousness |
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Definition |
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Differentiation |
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Free Will |
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Innate Ideas |
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Integration |
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Mysticism |
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Omniscience |
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Unit (Epistemology) |
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Measurement |
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Objectivism |
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Metaphysics |
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Omnipotence |
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Praxeology |
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Economics |
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Human Action |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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Fallacy of Reification of the Zero |
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The Error in Regarding the Man-Made as Immutable |
|
|
The Error in Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
|
|
The Error of Conflating the Man-Made with the Metaphysically Given |
|
|
The Impossibility of Unlimited Senses |
|
|
All Knowledge is Either Perceptual or Conceptual |
|
|
Different Forms of Sense Perception does not Invalidate Sense Perception |
|
|
Different Forms of Sense Perception Lead to Different Capabilities in Deducing Laws |
|
|
Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Fallibility of a Conceptual Consciousness |
|
|
Focus as Antecedent to Any Choice |
|
|
Floating Abstraction |
|
|
Hallucinations do not Negate the Validity of the Senses |
|
|
Illusions are not Perceptual Errors |
|
|
Measurement Relationships |
|
|
Onus of Proof Principle |
|
|
Sensation |
|
|
Sense Perception |
|
|
Sensory Subjectivism |
|
|
The Epistemic Primacy of Sense Perception |
|
|
The Identity of Consciousness as the Root of Epistemology |
|
|
The Invalidity of the Senses Implies The Invalidity of Knowledge |
|
|
The Kantian Attack on Cognition |
|
|
The Levels of Consciousness |
|
|
The Objectivist Theory of Concepts |
|
|
The Primary Choice Being Focus or Drift |
|
|
The Role of the Senses |
|
|
The Senses as Condensing Complex Information |
|
|
The Senses as Distorted Implies Non-Consciousness |
|
|
The Senses Do Not Distort |
|
|
Fallacy of the Misuse of the Mean |
|
|
Epistemology |
|
|
Logical Fallacies |
|
|
Percept |
|
|
Empiricism |
|
|
Rationalism |
|
|
Sensualism |
|
|
Why Objectivism Rejects Agnosticism |
|
|
Fallacy of Package-Dealing |
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Fallacy of Equivocation |
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The Validation of Sense Perception |
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|
Law |
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Ad Ignoratiom Fallacy |
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The Laws of Logic |
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Ad Populum Fallacy |
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The Appeal to Authority |
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A Consciousness Conscious Only of Itself |
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Four Fundamentals Characteristics of Consciousness |
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Forms of the Primacy of Consciousness |
|
|
Primacy of the Social Consciousness |
|
|
Primacy of the Personal Consciousness |
|
|
Primacy of the Supernatural Consciousness |
|
|
The Categories of Being |
|
|
The Primacy of Existence as an Objectivist Innovation |
|
|
Fallacy of Self-Exclusion |
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A Baby-in-a-Womb as an Entity |
|
|
Entity |
|
|
Existence is Identity |
|
|
Fire as a non-Entity |
|
|
God as Infinite |
|
|
How Much Time Has There Been |
|
|
Infinity as a Floating Abstraction |
|
|
Metaphysically Given |
|
|
Miracles are a Metaphysical Impossibility |
|
|
The Characteristics of Entities |
|
|
The Error of Mechanistic Causality |
|
|
The Fundamental Axioms of Metaphysics |
|
|
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as a Refutation of Causality |
|
|
The Metaphysically Given as Absolute |
|
|
The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
|
|
The Universe as Eternal |
|
|
The Primacy of Consciousness as the Fundamental Error |
|
|
Nominalism |
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Ad Hominem Fallacy |
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Axioms as Irreducible Primaries |
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Bundled Philosophy |
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Axioms as Undeniable |
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|
Common Bromides |
|
|
The Grand Canyon Argument |
|
|
Corollary |
|
|
Philosophy |
|
|
Validation |
|
|
Abstraction |
|
|
Concepts of Consciousness as Involving Measurement-Omission |
|
|
Conceptual Common Denominator |
|
|
Conceptual Order |
|
|
Epistemic Authoritarianism |
|
|
Epistemic Units as Objective |
|
|
Evasion |
|
|
Innate Knowledge as a Violation of Causality |
|
|
Libertarian Free Will |
|
|
Mental Focus |
|
|
Mental Focus as Having Degrees |
|
|
Mystics of Spirit |
|
|
Mysticism as Invalid |
|
|
Naive Realism |
|
|
The Attack on the Senses by Being Effects |
|
|
The Attack on the Senses by Eddington's Two Tables |
|
|
The Attack on the Senses from their Limitation |
|
|
The Epistemic Sense of Objectivity |
|
|
The Epistemic Role of Measurement |
|
|
The Impossibility of Gaining Omniscence |
|
|
The Interrelation of Evasion and Drift |
|
|
The Locus of Human Free Will |
|
|
The Objectivist Theory of Concept Formation as Valid |
|
|
The Pre-Requisites of Epistemology |
|
|
The Role of Definition for a Conceptual Being |
|
|
The Role of Language for a Conceptual Being |
|
|
The Secondary Choice Being The Choice to Think or Evade |
|
|
The Secondary Choice as Being Motivated |
|
|
The Sensory-Perceptual Level as Automatic |
|
|
The Stolen Concept Fallacy |
|
|
The Validation of Free Will |
|
|
Concept |
|
|
Conscious Action |
|
|
Conscious Content |
|
|
Consciousness |
|
|
Definition |
|
|
Differentiation |
|
|
Free Will |
|
|
Innate Ideas |
|
|
Integration |
|
|
Mysticism |
|
|
Omniscience |
|
|
Unit (Epistemology) |
|
|
Naive Anarchism as a Package Deal |
|
|
Commensurability |
|
|
Concept-Formation as an Algebraic Process |
|
|
The Differing Challenges of Explicating a Standard of Measurement |
|
|
The Requirements of a Standard of Measurement |
|
|
Measurement |
|
|
The Determinist-Indeterminist False-Dichotomy |
|
|
Companions in Guilt |
|
|
The Conflation of Empiricism and Nominalism-Sensualism |
|
|
Scientism |
|
|
Objectivism |
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|
Fallacy of Begging the Question |
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Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent |
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Fallacy of the False Alternative |
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Argumentative Soundness |
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Argumentative Validity |
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Fallacy of the Frozen Abstraction |
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A Physical Explanation for Consciousness or Free Will does not Negate Their Existence |
|
|
Arguments from Defining God into Existence |
|
|
Does Omnipotence Include The Ability to make Contradictions True |
|
|
Examples of Entities |
|
|
God as a Miracle-Worker |
|
|
God as a Pure Self-Consciousness |
|
|
God as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
|
|
God as Omnipotent |
|
|
God as the Creator |
|
|
God as the Designer |
|
|
Materialism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
|
|
Objectivism does not Hold that Consciousness is an Entity |
|
|
Rejections of the Basic Axioms |
|
|
Spiritual vs Material |
|
|
The Error of Conflating the Potential with the Actual |
|
|
The Law of Causality |
|
|
The Metaphysical Sense of Objectivity |
|
|
The Mind-Body Conflict |
|
|
Existence Exists |
|
|
The Axiom of Consciousness |
|
|
The Law of Identity |
|
|
Metaphysics |
|
|
Omnipotence |
|
|
Consciousness as a non-Entity |
|
|
Consciousness as Naturalistic |
|
|
Consciousness as Unscientific Because it Cannot be Defined |
|
|
Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Primacy of Existence |
|
|
Idealism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
|
|
Nominalism iff Sensualism |
|
|
The Materialist-Idealist False Dichotomy |
|
|
The Meaning of Objectivity |
|
|
The Metaphysical Status of Concepts |
|
|
The Primacy of Existence vs The Primacy of Consciousness |
|
|
The Timaeus on the Imperfection of Reality |
|
|
Idealism |
|
|
A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
|
|
A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate Their Existence |
|
|
A Physical Description of Entities is the Realm of Physics, not Philosophy |
|
|
Psuedoscience |
|
|
Science |
|
|
Praxeology |
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|
How Essential Is Praxeology to Philosophy |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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Action (BPC) |
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Broad Physical Categories (BPC) |
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Causal Connections (BPC) |
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Characteristics vs. Properties (BPC) |
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Conditioning Connections (BPC) |
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Constituent and Composite Entities (BPC) |
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Entity and Property (BPC) |
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Four Conditioning Connections (BPC) |
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Matter and Form (BPC) |
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Material and Formal Entities (BPC) |
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Necessary Connections (BPC) |
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|
Relationship (BPC) |
|
|
The Four Causes (BPC) |
|
|
nootestemplate |
|
- |
The Plane Crash Example |
|
|
Fallacy of Reification of the Zero |
|
|
The Error in Regarding the Man-Made as Immutable |
|
|
The Error in Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
|
|
The Error of Conflating the Man-Made with the Metaphysically Given |
|
|
The Impossibility of Unlimited Senses |
|
|
Fallacy of Package-Dealing |
|
|
Fallacy of Equivocation |
|
|
The Validation of Sense Perception |
|
|
Man |
|
|
Consciousness Has an Object and a Subject |
|
|
Consciousness is a Biological Faculty |
|
|
Consciousness is an Active Process |
|
|
Non-Existence |
|
|
Fact |
|
|
Ad Populum Fallacy |
|
|
The Appeal to Authority |
|
- |
A Consciousness Conscious Only of Itself |
|
|
Four Fundamentals Characteristics of Consciousness |
|
|
Forms of the Primacy of Consciousness |
|
|
Primacy of the Social Consciousness |
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Primacy of the Personal Consciousness |
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Primacy of the Supernatural Consciousness |
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The Categories of Being |
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The Primacy of Existence as an Objectivist Innovation |
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Fallacy of Self-Exclusion |
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A Baby-in-a-Womb as an Entity |
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Entity |
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Existence is Identity |
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Fire as a non-Entity |
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God as Infinite |
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How Much Time Has There Been |
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Infinity as a Floating Abstraction |
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Metaphysically Given |
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Miracles are a Metaphysical Impossibility |
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The Characteristics of Entities |
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The Error of Mechanistic Causality |
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The Fundamental Axioms of Metaphysics |
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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as a Refutation of Causality |
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The Metaphysically Given as Absolute |
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The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
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The Universe as Eternal |
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The Primacy of Consciousness as the Fundamental Error |
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Nominalism |
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The Psychological Effects of Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
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The Determinist-Indeterminist False-Dichotomy |
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The Conflation of Empiricism and Nominalism-Sensualism |
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A Physical Explanation for Consciousness or Free Will does not Negate Their Existence |
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Arguments from Defining God into Existence |
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Does Omnipotence Include The Ability to make Contradictions True |
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Examples of Entities |
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God as a Miracle-Worker |
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God as a Pure Self-Consciousness |
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God as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
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God as Omnipotent |
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God as the Creator |
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God as the Designer |
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Materialism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
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Objectivism does not Hold that Consciousness is an Entity |
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Rejections of the Basic Axioms |
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Spiritual vs Material |
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The Error of Conflating the Potential with the Actual |
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The Law of Causality |
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The Metaphysical Sense of Objectivity |
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The Mind-Body Conflict |
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Existence Exists |
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The Axiom of Consciousness |
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The Law of Identity |
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Metaphysics |
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Omnipotence |
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Consciousness as a non-Entity |
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Consciousness as Naturalistic |
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Consciousness as Unscientific Because it Cannot be Defined |
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Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Primacy of Existence |
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Idealism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
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Nominalism iff Sensualism |
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The Materialist-Idealist False Dichotomy |
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The Meaning of Objectivity |
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The Metaphysical Status of Concepts |
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The Primacy of Existence vs The Primacy of Consciousness |
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The Timaeus on the Imperfection of Reality |
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Idealism |
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A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
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A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate Their Existence |
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An Anthropogenic Theory of Value |
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Arbitrary |
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Dismissing the Arbitrary |
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Johnny Cochran at the O.J. Trial Claiming a Police Conspiracy |
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Past Lives as an Example of The Arbitrary |
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The Arbitrary as Neither True nor False |
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The Validation of Negative Propositions |
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Why The Onus of Proof Principle Does Not Apply Equally to Negatives |
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Evidence |
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Falsehood |
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Inference |
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Proposition |
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Refute |
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Proof |
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Self-Evident vs. Obvious |
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Sentences |
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Truth |
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Normativity |
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Generalization |
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The Plane Crash Example |
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Fallacy of Reification of the Zero |
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The Error in Regarding the Man-Made as Immutable |
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The Error in Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
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The Error of Conflating the Man-Made with the Metaphysically Given |
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The Impossibility of Unlimited Senses |
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All Knowledge is Either Perceptual or Conceptual |
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Different Forms of Sense Perception does not Invalidate Sense Perception |
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Different Forms of Sense Perception Lead to Different Capabilities in Deducing Laws |
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Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Fallibility of a Conceptual Consciousness |
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Focus as Antecedent to Any Choice |
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Floating Abstraction |
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Hallucinations do not Negate the Validity of the Senses |
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Illusions are not Perceptual Errors |
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Measurement Relationships |
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Onus of Proof Principle |
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Sensation |
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Sense Perception |
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Sensory Subjectivism |
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The Epistemic Primacy of Sense Perception |
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The Identity of Consciousness as the Root of Epistemology |
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The Invalidity of the Senses Implies The Invalidity of Knowledge |
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The Kantian Attack on Cognition |
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The Levels of Consciousness |
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The Objectivist Theory of Concepts |
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The Primary Choice Being Focus or Drift |
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The Role of the Senses |
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The Senses as Condensing Complex Information |
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The Senses as Distorted Implies Non-Consciousness |
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The Senses Do Not Distort |
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Fallacy of the Misuse of the Mean |
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Epistemology |
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Logical Fallacies |
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Percept |
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Empiricism |
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Rationalism |
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Sensualism |
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Why Objectivism Rejects Agnosticism |
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Fallacy of Package-Dealing |
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Fallacy of Equivocation |
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The Validation of Sense Perception |
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Recklessness and Negligence |
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The Failure of Mixed Law |
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Consciousness Has an Object and a Subject |
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Consciousness is a Biological Faculty |
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Consciousness is an Active Process |
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Non-Existence |
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Fact |
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Ad Populum Fallacy |
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The Appeal to Authority |
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A Consciousness Conscious Only of Itself |
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Four Fundamentals Characteristics of Consciousness |
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Forms of the Primacy of Consciousness |
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Primacy of the Social Consciousness |
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Primacy of the Personal Consciousness |
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Primacy of the Supernatural Consciousness |
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The Categories of Being |
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The Primacy of Existence as an Objectivist Innovation |
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The Primacy of Consciousness as the Fundamental Error |
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Abstraction |
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Concepts of Consciousness as Involving Measurement-Omission |
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Conceptual Common Denominator |
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Conceptual Order |
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Epistemic Authoritarianism |
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Epistemic Units as Objective |
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Evasion |
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Innate Knowledge as a Violation of Causality |
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Libertarian Free Will |
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Mental Focus |
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Mental Focus as Having Degrees |
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Mystics of Spirit |
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Mysticism as Invalid |
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Naive Realism |
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The Attack on the Senses by Being Effects |
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The Attack on the Senses by Eddington's Two Tables |
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The Attack on the Senses from their Limitation |
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The Epistemic Sense of Objectivity |
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The Epistemic Role of Measurement |
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The Impossibility of Gaining Omniscence |
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The Interrelation of Evasion and Drift |
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The Locus of Human Free Will |
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The Objectivist Theory of Concept Formation as Valid |
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The Pre-Requisites of Epistemology |
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The Role of Definition for a Conceptual Being |
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The Role of Language for a Conceptual Being |
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The Secondary Choice Being The Choice to Think or Evade |
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The Secondary Choice as Being Motivated |
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The Sensory-Perceptual Level as Automatic |
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The Stolen Concept Fallacy |
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The Validation of Free Will |
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Concept |
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Conscious Action |
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Conscious Content |
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Consciousness |
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Definition |
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Differentiation |
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Free Will |
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Innate Ideas |
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Integration |
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Mysticism |
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Omniscience |
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Unit (Epistemology) |
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Naive Anarchism as a Package Deal |
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Commensurability |
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Concept-Formation as an Algebraic Process |
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The Differing Challenges of Explicating a Standard of Measurement |
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The Requirements of a Standard of Measurement |
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Measurement |
|
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The Determinist-Indeterminist False-Dichotomy |
|
|
The Conflation of Empiricism and Nominalism-Sensualism |
|
|
Fallacy of the Frozen Abstraction |
|
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Consciousness as a non-Entity |
|
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Consciousness as Naturalistic |
|
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Consciousness as Unscientific Because it Cannot be Defined |
|
|
Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Primacy of Existence |
|
|
Idealism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
|
|
Nominalism iff Sensualism |
|
|
The Materialist-Idealist False Dichotomy |
|
|
The Meaning of Objectivity |
|
|
The Metaphysical Status of Concepts |
|
|
The Primacy of Existence vs The Primacy of Consciousness |
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Psuedoscience |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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An Anthropogenic Theory of Value |
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Normativity |
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Companions in Guilt |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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Recklessness and Negligence |
|
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The Failure of Mixed Law |
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Man |
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Law |
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The Error of Conflating Ownership with Possesion |
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Rape Matrix |
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Anarcho-Capitalism |
|
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Naive Anarchism as a Package Deal |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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An Anthropogenic Theory of Value |
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Man |
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The Error of Conflating Ownership with Possesion |
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Rape Matrix |
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Anarcho-Capitalism |
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Addressing Fallibilism and Necessary Truths In General and In the Study of Man In Particular |
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Addressing the Attacks on Abstraction In General and In the Study of Man In Particular |
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The Empiricist Case for the Action Axiom |
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The Objectivist Case for the Validation of Praxeology |
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Human Action is Undeniable |
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Praxeology |
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Economics |
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Human Action |
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How Essential Is Praxeology to Philosophy |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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Austrian Economics |
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The Decivilizing Effect of Taxation |
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The Economic Calculation Problem |
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An Anthropogenic Theory of Value |
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Austrian Alternatives to Conventional Economic Statistics |
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Austrian Economics versus Keynesian and Monetarist Macroeconomics |
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Economics |
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Human Action |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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Empiricism |
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Rationalism |
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Sensualism |
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Why Objectivism Rejects Agnosticism |
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Anarcho-Capitalism |
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Nominalism |
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Scientism |
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Objectivism |
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Idealism |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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Anarcho-Capitalism |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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Law |
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Psuedoscience |
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Science |
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Praxeology |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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Action (BPC) |
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Broad Physical Categories (BPC) |
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Causal Connections (BPC) |
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Characteristics vs. Properties (BPC) |
|
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Conditioning Connections (BPC) |
|
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Constituent and Composite Entities (BPC) |
|
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Entity and Property (BPC) |
|
|
Four Conditioning Connections (BPC) |
|
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Matter and Form (BPC) |
|
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Material and Formal Entities (BPC) |
|
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Necessary Connections (BPC) |
|
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Relationship (BPC) |
|
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The Four Causes (BPC) |
|
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nootestemplate |
|
- |
The Plane Crash Example |
|
|
Fallacy of Reification of the Zero |
|
|
The Error in Regarding the Man-Made as Immutable |
|
|
The Error in Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
|
|
The Error of Conflating the Man-Made with the Metaphysically Given |
|
|
The Impossibility of Unlimited Senses |
|
|
Fallacy of Package-Dealing |
|
|
Fallacy of Equivocation |
|
|
The Validation of Sense Perception |
|
|
Man |
|
|
Consciousness Has an Object and a Subject |
|
|
Consciousness is a Biological Faculty |
|
|
Consciousness is an Active Process |
|
|
Non-Existence |
|
|
Fact |
|
|
Ad Populum Fallacy |
|
|
The Appeal to Authority |
|
- |
A Consciousness Conscious Only of Itself |
|
|
Four Fundamentals Characteristics of Consciousness |
|
|
Forms of the Primacy of Consciousness |
|
|
Primacy of the Social Consciousness |
|
|
Primacy of the Personal Consciousness |
|
|
Primacy of the Supernatural Consciousness |
|
|
The Categories of Being |
|
|
The Primacy of Existence as an Objectivist Innovation |
|
|
Fallacy of Self-Exclusion |
|
|
A Baby-in-a-Womb as an Entity |
|
|
Entity |
|
|
Existence is Identity |
|
|
Fire as a non-Entity |
|
|
God as Infinite |
|
|
How Much Time Has There Been |
|
|
Infinity as a Floating Abstraction |
|
|
Metaphysically Given |
|
|
Miracles are a Metaphysical Impossibility |
|
|
The Characteristics of Entities |
|
|
The Error of Mechanistic Causality |
|
|
The Fundamental Axioms of Metaphysics |
|
|
The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle as a Refutation of Causality |
|
|
The Metaphysically Given as Absolute |
|
|
The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
|
|
The Universe as Eternal |
|
|
The Primacy of Consciousness as the Fundamental Error |
|
|
Nominalism |
|
|
The Psychological Effects of Regarding the Metaphysically Given as Mutable |
|
|
The Determinist-Indeterminist False-Dichotomy |
|
|
The Conflation of Empiricism and Nominalism-Sensualism |
|
|
A Physical Explanation for Consciousness or Free Will does not Negate Their Existence |
|
|
Arguments from Defining God into Existence |
|
|
Does Omnipotence Include The Ability to make Contradictions True |
|
|
Examples of Entities |
|
|
God as a Miracle-Worker |
|
|
God as a Pure Self-Consciousness |
|
|
God as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
|
|
God as Omnipotent |
|
|
God as the Creator |
|
|
God as the Designer |
|
|
Materialism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
|
|
Objectivism does not Hold that Consciousness is an Entity |
|
|
Rejections of the Basic Axioms |
|
|
Spiritual vs Material |
|
|
The Error of Conflating the Potential with the Actual |
|
|
The Law of Causality |
|
|
The Metaphysical Sense of Objectivity |
|
|
The Mind-Body Conflict |
|
|
Existence Exists |
|
|
The Axiom of Consciousness |
|
|
The Law of Identity |
|
|
Metaphysics |
|
|
Omnipotence |
|
|
Consciousness as a non-Entity |
|
|
Consciousness as Naturalistic |
|
|
Consciousness as Unscientific Because it Cannot be Defined |
|
|
Epistemology as Dependent Upon the Primacy of Existence |
|
|
Idealism as a Rejection of the Basic Axioms |
|
|
Nominalism iff Sensualism |
|
|
The Materialist-Idealist False Dichotomy |
|
|
The Meaning of Objectivity |
|
|
The Metaphysical Status of Concepts |
|
|
The Primacy of Existence vs The Primacy of Consciousness |
|
|
The Timaeus on the Imperfection of Reality |
|
|
Idealism |
|
|
A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate The Metaphysical Status of Sensory Qualities |
|
|
A Physical Description of Entities does not Negate Their Existence |
|
|
A Physical Description of Entities is the Realm of Physics, not Philosophy |
|
File | Tags | Aliases |
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Commensurability |
|
|
Concept-Formation as an Algebraic Process |
|
|
The Differing Challenges of Explicating a Standard of Measurement |
|
|
The Requirements of a Standard of Measurement |
|
|
Measurement |
|
|
File | Tags | Aliases |
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Ad Ignoratiom Fallacy |
|
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The Laws of Logic |
|
- |
Fallacy of Begging the Question |
|
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Fallacy of Affirming the Consequent |
|
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Fallacy of the False Alternative |
|
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Argumentative Soundness |
|
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Argumentative Validity |
|
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Fallacy of the Frozen Abstraction |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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Empiricism |
|
|
Rationalism |
|
|
Sensualism |
|
|
Nominalism |
|
|
The Conflation of Empiricism and Nominalism-Sensualism |
|
|
The Timaeus on the Imperfection of Reality |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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File | Tags | Aliases |
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