Terminology Helpers from Ontic Cafe on Twitter

1. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 24

   Philosophical terminology helper. Irreducible adj. Meaning: Cannot be reduced (conceptually, physically, explanatorily).
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3. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 24

   Philosophical terminology helper. Platonic Abstracta Meaning: Entities that exist as abstract forms per something like Plato's conception.
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5. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 24

   Philosophical terminology helper. Physical Platonism Meaning: Philosophy of mathematics that regards numbers as Platonic abstracta.
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7. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 24

   Philosophical terminology helper. Mathematical Fictionalism n. Meaning: Philosophy of mathematics that regards numbers as fictions.
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9. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 24

   Philosophical terminology helper. The Desert of the Real Meaning: When the hyperreal representation has replaced the represented reality.
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11. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 24

    Philosophical terminology helper. Emergentism n. Meaning: View that emergent properties (and sometimes structures) do exist.
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13. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Emergent Properties Meaning: New properties that aren't reducible to or explainable by existing properties.
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15. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Anti-reductionist Physicalism Meaning: View that physicalism is true, but physical reductionism's false.
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17. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Conceptual Reductionism Meaning: View that every concept reduces to other concepts. Especially scientific.
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19. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Explanatory Reductionism Meaning: Every system can be explained in terms of explanations of subsystems.
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21. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Physical Reductionism Meaning: View that everything that exists reduces to physical entities or structures.
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23. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Non Sequitur Ltn. n. Meaning: A conclusion that does not (necessarily) follow from the premise(s) given.
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25. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Humean Meaning: Of the philosophy/philosophies of British Empiricist sceptical philosopher David Hume.
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27. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Moral Anti-realism Meaning: The view that morals do not exist in the world as objectively real things.
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29. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Explanatory Gap Meaning: The view that the mind will never be fully explained by science.
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31. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Dualism About Mind Meaning: The view that the mind does not reduce to physical brain processes.
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33. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 23

    Philosophical terminology helper. Metaphysical Dualism Meaning: The world is has more than just material entities and includes spooky stuff.
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35. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 21

    Philosophical terminology helper. Hyperreal Meaning: A representation of a reality that has replaced/hidden that reality (Jean Baudrillard.)
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37. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 21

    Philosophical terminology helper. Modus Ponens Meaning: If A is true when B is true, then if B is true, necessarily A is true. B->A, B ∴A
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39. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 21

    Philosophical terminology helper. Utilitarianism n. Meaning: The view that an act is moral only if its consequence is maximum happiness.
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41. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 21

    Philosophical terminology helper. Consequentialism n. Meaning: The view that the morality of acts is determined by their consequences only.
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43. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 21

    Philosophical terminology helper. Categorical Imperative (Kant) Meaning: One ought to do some act if one could will that everyone should.
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45. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 21

    Philosophical terminology helper. Qualia n. pl. (Quale) Meaning: Qualities of what it is like to have a phenomenal or conscious experience.
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47. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 21

    Philosophical terminology helper. Premise Meaning: A propositional statement used as a basis of an argument or a claim about the world.
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49. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 20

    Philosophical terminology helper. Begging the Question (Petitio Principii) Meaning: Assuming what you are arguing/proving to argue/prove it.
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51. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 20

    Philosophical terminology helper. Pessimistic meta-induction Meaning: Science is flawed because new scientific theories disprove old ones.
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53. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 20

    Philosophical terminology helper. Nomic Constraint Meaning: A law-like or invariable constraint, such as an invariable natural law.
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55. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 20

    Philosophical terminology helper. Intrinsic Property Meaning: A property 'B' of thing 'A' where an 'A' necessarily always has property 'B'.
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57. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 20

    Philosophical terminology helper. Term: Epistemology (noun). Meaning: The study of knowledge: what it is, and what it means to have it.
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59. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 20

    Philosophy Terminology helper. Term: Ontological. (adj.) syn. Ontic Meaning: Pertaining to (the) ontology (of something) See previous helper
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61. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 20

    Philosophical terminology helper. Term: Ontology (noun) Meaning: The broad study of what exists and how. Sub-discipline of metaphysics.