Twitter Mini Quiz Answers (Answers at bottom)

1. 1. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 27

      Mini Quiz. Which philosopher wrote "I think therefore I am"? 1. Jean Jacques Rousseau 2. Bertrand Russell 3. Rene DesCartes 4. None of them.
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2. 1. Ontic Cafe ‏@Onticafe  Apr 27

      Mini Quiz time. Which of these philosophers was a British Empiricist: 1. David Hume 2. Voltaire 3. John Locke 4. Bishop Berkeley 5. 1, 3 & 4
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ANSWER: Quiz 1. 5.

ANSWER: Quiz 2. Is in fact 4. None of them.

 "I think, therefore I am" is never directly stated as such in Rene Descartes' Discourse on Method. In his 2nd Meditations: "So after considering everything very thoroughly, I must finally conclude that this proposition, I am, I exist, is necessarily true whenever it is put forward by me or conceived in my mind." Neither "therefore" nor "I think" appear in the Meditations.

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.