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"Lies, Damned lies, and statistics"

"Real artists ship"

~The True meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

A nothing would serve just as well as a something about which nothing could be said.

a priori and a posteriori

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

Accept and endure

Against the ruin of the world, there is only one defense—the creative act.

Alexis de Tocqueville

Alignment (Dungeons & Dragons)

All men are created equal

Altruism (ethics)

Analytic Philosophy

Analytic-synthetic distinction

Anarcho-syndicalism

Ancient Philosophy

Anti-establishment

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

Anti-intellectualism

Apollonian and Dionysian

Applied philosophy

Arthur Schopenhauer

Banality of Evil

Be a philosopher; but, amidst all your philosophy, be still a man.

Becoming (philosophy)

Being and Nothingness

Berkely's razor

Bertrand Russell

Beyond Good and Evil

Bicameral mentality

Bicycle for our minds

Christopher Hitchens

Claim rights and liberty rights

Class (philosophy)

Classical republicanism

Climate justice

Cogito ergo sum

Commensurability (ethics)

Commensurability (philosophy of science)

Commensurability & Incommensurability

Comparative philosophy

Conceptual framework

Consent of the governed

Contemporary philosophy

Continental Philosophy

Critical Philosophy

Critique of Pure Reason

Culture and Anarchy

Data portability

Democracy Is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried.

Democratic Party (United States)

Democratic socialism

Design is how it works

Digital soverignty

Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid...

Dyad (philosophy)

Eastern Philosophy

Eichmann in Jerusalem

Einstein's Razor

Eliminative materialism

Elizabeth S. Anderson

Equal opportunity

Equality before the law

Equality of outcome

Eternalism (philosophy of time)

Ethics of Technology

Existence Precedes Essence

Existential crisis

Existentialists

Experience machine

Experimental philosophy

Explanatory power

Fact-value Distinction

False accusation

Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change

Flammarion engraving

Form of life (philosophy)

Form of the Good

Formal language

Formalism (philosophy)

Four-dimensionalism

Frankfurt school

Friedrich Nietzsche

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

George Berkeley

Gettier Problem

Gratis versus libre

Great Chain of Being

Guilt (emotion)

He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.

Hitchen's Razor

Holon (philosophy)

I used his pain as coal for my furnace of ambition.

Identity (philosophy)

Identity politics

Ideologies, -isms, & -ocracies

If a lion could talk, we could not understand him.

If a tree falls in a forest

Indirect realism

Individual and group rights

Intellectual History

Intellectual honesty

Intentional stance

Intergenerational justice

Intersubjectivity

Intolerance of intolerance is not intolerance

Is it of the very essence of truth to be impotent and of the very essence of power to be deceitful ...is not impotent truth just as despicable as power that gives no heed to truth

Is-ought Problem

James Giles (philosopher)

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Johann Gottlieb Fichte

John Stuart Mill

Jordan Peterson

Jurgen Habermas

Just war theory

Justice as Fairness

Justification (epistemology)

Knowledge argument

Liberty, equality, fraternity

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness

Linguistic turn

Luck egalitarianism

Ludwig Wittgenstein

Make things as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Map–territory relation

Martin Heidegger

Medieval Philosophy

Microcosm–macrocosm Analogy

Mind-body problem

Modern Philosophy

Molyneux's problem

Monad (philosophy)

Monoculturalism

Moral Circle Expansion

Moral Foundations Theory

Moral Psychology

Myth of Sisyphus

Natural language

Natural rights and legal rights

Negative and positive rights

Nietzschean affirmation

No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man

Non-reductive materialism

Object-oriented Ontology

On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense

Open-mindedness

Original position

Paradox of Tolerance

Partisan (politics)

Perennial Philosophy

Personal Identity

Phenomenology of Spirit

Philosohpical Realism

Philosopher king

Philosophical Investigations

Philosophical presentism

Philosophical razor

Philosophical zombie

Philosophy of education

Philosophy of happiness

Philosophy of history

Philosophy of language

Philosophy of law

Philosophy of love

Philosophy of mathematics

Philosophy of mind

Philosophy of perception

Philosophy of religion

Philosophy of science

Philosophy of technology

Philosophy of time

Physician-assisted suicide

Plato's theory of soul

Politcal correctness

Political Philosophy

Political polarization

Post-structuralism

Practical philosophy

Principle of Charity

Principle of compositionality

Principle of Humanity

Private language argument

Problem of universals

Property (philosophy)

Property rights

Quality (philosophy)

Raymond Chandler

Reciprocal altruism

Reciprocal determinism

Reification (Marxism)

Relation (philosophy)

Reparations (transitional justice)

Republican Party (United States)

Restorative justice

Retributive justice

Routledge Philosophy GuideBook to Wittgenstein and the Philosophical Investigations

Russell's Teapot

Scientific misconceptions

Self-determination

Ship of Theseus

Similarity (philosophy)

Simone de Beauvoir

Social contract

Socially Relevant Computing

Soren Kierkegaard

Stance (linguistics)

Subject-object distinction

Subjective Idealism

Suppose we want truth; why not rather untruth; And uncertainty; Even ignorance

Sustainable Computing

Sweetness and light

Synoptic Philosophy

Taiji (philosophy)

Teleological argument

Telos (philosophy)

Temporal paradox

Ten Commandments of Computer Ethics

Ternary numeral system

Ternary operation

Ternary relation

The extended mind

The Hedgehog and the Fox

The human condition

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind

The Origins of Totalitarianism

The Question Concerning Technology, and Other Essays

The relational self

The truth will set you free

Theoretical philosophy

Theory of categories

Theory of everything (philosophy)

There are heights of the soul from which even tragedy ceases to look tragic.

There is but one truly serious philosophical problem, and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy.

Thorngate's Postulate of Commensurate Complexity

Thought experiment

To be is to be perceived

To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle

Totalitarianism

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Tragedy of the Commons

Transcendental phenomenology

Transformative justice

Transitional justice

Tree of knowledge (philosophy)

Trichotomy (philosophy)

Tripartite classification of authority

Trolley problem

Truth and Politics

Twin Earth thought experiment

Type–token Distinction

Tyranny of the masses

Universal (metaphysics)

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Universal jurisdiction

Utility monster

Walter Benjamin

Watchmaker analogy

What is it like to be a Bat

What Is the Point of Equality

What then is truth A mobile army of metaphors, metonyms, and anthropomorphisms... after long use seem firm, canonical, and obligatory

Willard Van Orman Quine

Winston Churchill

Wittgenstein's Ladder

Wittgensteinian Philosophical therapy

Zeno's Paradoxes

Political Science

Psychology

Religion

Sociology

Visual Arts

Civic engagement

Civil resistance

Employer Identification Number

Federal government of the United States

German Language

Heather Cox Richardson

Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences

Language, Linguistics, Literature, Lexical, Logos, Semiotics, Meaning, & Rhetoric

Mandate (politics)

Mass surveillance

Nuclear semiotics

Occupy Wall Street

Political correctness

Political Economy

Political party

Political satire

Separation of powers

Social Security Number

State governments of the United States

United States Bill of Rights

Visual language

Walter Lippmann

Natural Sciences

Professional & Applied Sciences

Adjacent Possible

Business, Economics, & Finance

Deep work (concept)

Design rationale

Form follows function

Frank Lloyd Wright

Industrial design

Instructional design

Integral theory (Ken Wilber)

Interior design

Leadership, Teaching, & Management

Organizational design

Quantification (science)

Sean M. Carroll

Strategic design

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Occam's Razor

In philosophy, Occam's Razor is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony. Attributed to William of Ockham, a 14th-century English philosopher and theologian, it is frequently cited as Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, which translates as "Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity", although Occam never used these exact words. Popularly, the principle is sometimes inaccurately paraphrased as "The simplest explanation is usually the best one."

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