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555:. If that's the case, you can feel free to replace what I've written with your own golden prose; I'd just appreciate that you convey roughly the same information that I do (i.e., you cover the same topics and say the same (true) things I have to say about them). If these textbook entries are placeholders before better stuff comes along, that's perfectly fine by me. The lectures are long since over and they aren't my professional work--they're basic explanations for undergrads. So I won't mind, really! 60:
Note, November 25, 2002: A few of these articles have been edited and maintained by me, but most of them have been tweaked here and there by others, unfortunately often not to the benefit of the article. I've pretty much let them go however other have wanted them to go with no input at all. This is
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I know a lot of this sucks. It is written to get the general concepts across to Ohio State undergrads. Yes, some of what I've written might be outright wrong, and most of it can be tightened up considerably. If you want to help me do that,
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Since these are lectures, I refer to myself, the students, Ohio State, readings, other lectures I've given (hence, other parts of the wiki) and other stuff that shouldn't belong on the wiki. Of course, I'll be removing all
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Finally, you might not like my style, and you might think that I don't present the issues reliably enough, and otherwise feel that this contribution is not exactly a boon to
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I have saved the sections on pages with titles describing their content. Ultimately, perhaps, the titles will be changed (rendered in
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I have (temporarily) saved the text in section-sized chunks, but as I wikify I'm saving it in even smaller chunks.
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are omitted). This material will require radical reworking and general wikification to become appropriate for
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The following is a list of links to articles that were, at least in early versions, a series of introductory
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bother replying to something I've written here. Just make the change you think is necessary, please.
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I have taken actual stands on certain issues. I'll be de-opinionating these entries, of course.
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style), and the entirety of a certain page will sometimes be split up and put on other pages.
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fine with me, though, for now. I'll go back over them if and when I have time. --
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User:Larry Sanger/Traditionally respectable arguments for the existence of God
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I'll be rendering the prose a little more formal, less lecture-like.
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User:Larry Sanger/Obviously bad arguments for the existence of God
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lectures that I wrote out completely and read to my unfortunate
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I think that's it for now. Any comments or questions?
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Index

User:Larry Sanger
philosophy
Ohio State University
1998
subdisciplines of philosophy
philosophy of science
aesthetics
Knowledge (XXG)
Larry Sanger
Larry Sanger
the motivation to philosophize
introduction to philosophical method
definition of philosophy
philosophical subdisciplines
college logic
argument
logical fallacy
argument form
validity
soundness
cogency
good argument
deduction and induction
modus ponens
modus tollens
disjunctive syllogism
affirming the consequent
definition
extension
intension

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