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The glossary contains some general key concepts from philosophy.

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Rationalism is an epistemological position that emphasizes reason as a source of knowledge itself, not merely a way of organizing and drawing further hypotheses from knowledge gotten by sense ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

A sophism is a bad argument presented as if it were a good one to deceive, mislead, or cheat someone; sophistry is the practice of doing this. In Ancient Greece, the sophists were itinerant teachers ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

Utilitarianism is a "consequentialist" ethical theory. Utilitarianism is usually connected with the more specific doctrines of Bentham and Mill, who took the goodness of consequences to be measured ...

Domain: Philosophy; Category: General philosophy

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