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Here is a list of the terms and definitions on each card.

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Term: Begging the Question
Definition: The fallacy committed by an argument when its premises presuppose, directly or indirectly, the truth of its conclusion. (6.7.1)
Card 2:
Term: Coherence Theory of Truth
Definition: A theory that holds that a particular statement is true when it is part of a coherent set of mutually supporting statements. (6.1.2)
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Term: Correspondence Theory of Truth
Definition: A theory that holds that the truth of a statement is its correspondence to a fact. (6.1.1)
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Term: Empirical Fact
Definition: A fact that is observable in principle—that is, if one were in the right place at the right time, under the right conditions. (6.1.1)
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Term: Empirical Statement
Definition: A statement that asserts an empirical fact, or a set of empirical facts. (6.1.1)
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Term: Equivocation
Definition: The fallacy committed by an argument when a premise has two interpretations, one acceptable and one unacceptable, and when it is the unacceptable interpretation that is required by the conclusion. (6.7.3)
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Term: Exclusive Alternatives
Definition: Alternatives that cannot both (or all) be true: when one is true, the other(s) must be false. (6.7.4)
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Term: Exhaustive Alternatives
Definition: Alternatives that cover all the possibilities. (6.7.4)
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Term: False Dichotomy
Definition: The fallacy committed by an argument when a premise presents us with a choice between two alternatives and assumes that they are exhaustive or exclusive or both, when in fact they are not. (6.7.4)
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Term: Falsified Truth-Claim
Definition: A truth-claim that has been shown to be false. (6.2)
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Term: Foundational Principles
Definition: Statements that underlie a practice or body of knowledge, such as the law of causality in science, which cannot be doubted without undermining everything else associated with that practice or body of knowledge. (6.2.2)
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Term: General Empirical Statement
Definition: A statement the truth-value of which depends on experience and concerns a wide range of particulars within the same class. (6.2.1)
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Term: Inconsistency
Definition: The fallacy committed by an argument when it contains, implicitly or explicitly, a contradiction, usually between two premises. (6.7.2)
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Term: Pragmatic Theory of Truth
Definition: A theory that holds that the truth of a statement consists in the fact that it leads to the successful solution of a real problem. (6.1.3)
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Term: Statistical Empirical Statement
Definition: A qualified general statement the truth-value of which depends on experience; it asserts something about a proportion of a class of things. (6.2.1)
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Term: Strict Proof
Definition: The most stringent standard of acceptability that can be made for a claim because the possibility of error has been eliminated (either in its use of empirical evidence or its support in a theorem). (6.3)
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Term: Undetermined Truth-Claim
Definition: A truth-claim that has been neither shown to be true nor shown to be false. (6.2)
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Term: Universal Empirical Statement
Definition: An unrestricted general statement about a class of things the truth-value of which depends on experience; it asserts something about the entire class. (6.2.1)
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Term: Verification
Definition: The process of determining whether a truth-claim is true. (6.2)
Card 20:
Term: Verified Truth-Claim
Definition: A truth-claim that has been shown to be true. (6.2)


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