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1. Drawing a conclusion based on the explanation that best explains a state of events, rather than from evidence provided by the premises

2. Validity + All true premises

3. According to Popper, pseudo-science _____

4. Situations in which one can have justified true belief, but not knowledge.

5. Qualities that physical objects themselves have, as opposed to in our minds; mass, solidity, height, density, depth, weight, width, figure, mobility

6. The love of wisdom

7. An argument presented to oppose or refute another argument

8. The propositional attitude of truth.

9. Qualities that are not objective that we project onto something with our minds; color, texture, smell, sound, taste, etc.

10. A philosopher who believed that we are all 'Tabula Rasa' and that all knowledge is obtained through experience. He came up with the concept of Primary and Secondary qualities as a way to understand Empiricism

11. A type of linguistic act - either spoken or written - that has a truth value. (As opposed to, e.g., a question)

12. The academic study of anything (ancient definition)

13. I think, therefore I am.

14. A way of thinking about questions (as distinct from science)

15. Deductive reasoning provides _______ conclusions

16. Storytelling

17. The tools that philosophers use to go about answering their questions in a clear, systematic way

18. The content of your assertion. The underlying meaning of what you're saying.

19. Someone who questions whether anything can be known with certainty.

20. Using past experience to make future predictions

21. Experiences we can't step out of to check if they are real.

22. When the person asserting something believes the proposition of their assertion, it is called a 'propositional attitude of ______'

23. The goal of a ___________ is not to win an argument, but to find truth

24. Ethics and Aesthetics

25. The branch of philosophy that studies the nature and scope of knowledge