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Filter this Collection| x name | x image | x Arguments of this type | x article |
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| x Thought experiment | Mary's room |
A thought experiment, sometimes called a gedankenexperiment in German, is a proposal for an experiment that would test or illuminate a hypothesis or theory.
Given the structure of the proposed experiment, it may or may not be possible to actually...
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| The Experience Machine | |||
| Chinese room | |||
| Bucket argument | |||
| Rotating spheres | |||
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| x A priori | Ontological argument | ||
| Trademark argument | |||
| x A posteriori | Argument from inconsistent revelations | ||
| Problem of evil | |||
| Argument from poor design | |||
| Argument from nonbelief | |||
| Irreducible complexity | |||
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| x Reductio ad absurdum | Argument from queerness |
In logic, proof by contradiction is a form of proof that establishes the truth or validity of a proposition by showing that the proposition being false would imply a contradiction. Since by the law of bivalence a proposition must be either true or...
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| Ryle's regress | |||
| Mere addition paradox | |||
| x Argument by analogy | Watchmaker analogy | ||
| Russell's teapot | |||
| Ship of state | |||
| x Demonstration | Socrates' argument from the diagonal square | ||
| Miller–Urey experiment | |||
| x Eyewitness testimony | Witness accounts of the Roswell UFO incident |
Research in eyewitness testimony is mostly considered a subfield within legal psychology, however it is a field with very broad implications. Human reports are normally based on visual perception, which is generally held to be very reliable (if not...
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| x Irrationality of Religion | God | ||
| x Deconstruction | God |
Deconstruction is the name given by French philosopher Jacques Derrida to an approach (whether in philosophy, literary analysis, or in other fields) which rigorously pursues the meaning of a text to the point of undoing the oppositions on which it...
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