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  2. Münchhausen trilemma - Wikipedia

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    One can stop at self-evidence or common sense or fundamental principles or speaking ex cathedra or at any other evidence, but in doing so, the intention to install 'certain' justification is abandoned. An English translation of a quote from the original German text by Albert is as follows: [6] Here, one has a mere choice between:

  3. Glossary of rhetorical terms - Wikipedia

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    Phronesis – practical wisdom; common sense. Pistis – the elements to induce true judgment through enthymemes, hence to give proof of a statement. Pleonasm – the use of more words than necessary to express an idea. Polyptoton – the repetition of a word or root in different cases or inflections within the same sentence.

  4. Common sense - Wikipedia

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    The common sense is where this comparison happens, and this must occur by comparing impressions (or symbols or markers; σημεῖον, sēmeîon, 'sign, mark') of what the specialist senses have perceived. [16] The common sense is therefore also where a type of consciousness originates, "for it makes us aware of having sensations at all". And ...

  5. Commonsense reasoning - Wikipedia

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    Some definitions and characterizations of common sense from different authors include: "Commonsense knowledge includes the basic facts about events (including actions) and their effects, facts about knowledge and how it is obtained, facts about beliefs and desires. It also includes the basic facts about material objects and their properties." [2]

  6. List of paradoxes - Wikipedia

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    Bertrand's paradox: Different common-sense definitions of randomness give quite different results. Birthday paradox: In a random group of only 23 people, there is a better than 50/50 chance two of them have the same birthday. Borel's paradox: Conditional probability density functions are not invariant under coordinate transformations.

  7. Knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Knowledge is a form of familiarity, awareness, understanding, or acquaintance.It often involves the possession of information learned through experience [1] and can be understood as a cognitive success or an epistemic contact with reality, like making a discovery. [2]

  8. Glossary of philosophy - Wikipedia

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    Also called humanocentrism. The practice, conscious or otherwise, of regarding the existence and concerns of human beings as the central fact of the universe. This is similar, but not identical, to the practice of relating all that happens in the universe to the human experience. To clarify, the first position concludes that the fact of human existence is the point of universal existence; the ...

  9. Proper name (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    This example became known as Frege's puzzle and is a central issue in the theory of proper names. Bertrand Russell was the first to propose a descriptivist theory of names , which held that a proper name refers not to a referent, but to a set of true propositions that uniquely describe a referent – for example, "Aristotle" refers to "the ...