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[...] Another implication is seen in the analogy of the soul and the polis. Firstly, the assumption that the analogy is legitimate to his argument[1]. The analogy used[2] can only supplement his argument if ...

Moral cognitivists hold that when we make a moral judgment, such as ‘Lucy ought to pay back the money she borrowed’, we are stating a belief. The importance of this is that beliefs can be true or false: eith...

A priori knowledge is prior to sense experience (thus 'priori'). For example, even prior to actually going out into the world and doing experiments, one could simply close their eyes, think, and deduce that ...

Jackson’s Knowledge Argument is used by opponents of physicalism to cast doubt upon the physicalist’s central claim, that talk of the mental can be reduced to talk purely of the physical. I will now set abou...

The core thesis of moral universalism is that moral claims are ultimately grounded in moral facts, and these facts are what give these claims their truth or falsehood. For moral universalists, the facts that...