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  2. False dilemma - Wikipedia

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    Young America's dilemma: Shall I be wise and great, or rich and powerful? (Puck 1901) A false dilemma, also referred to as false dichotomy or false binary, is an informal fallacy based on a premise that erroneously limits what options are available. The source of the fallacy lies not in an invalid form of inference but in a false premise.

  3. Definitions of knowledge - Wikipedia

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    He considered knowledge to be too diverse to characterize in terms of necessary and sufficient conditions. [69] He claimed not to be substituting knowledge-how for knowledge-that, but instead proposing a definition that is more general than both. [70] For Allen, knowledge is "deeper than language, different from belief, more valuable than truth ...

  4. Philosophical skepticism - Wikipedia

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    Some types of philosophical skepticism reject all forms of knowledge while others limit this rejection to certain fields, for example, knowledge about moral doctrines or about the external world. Some theorists criticize philosophical skepticism based on the claim that it is a self-refuting idea since its proponents seem to claim to know that ...

  5. List of Latin phrases (S) - Wikipedia

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    A motto of the Protestant Reformation and one of the five solas, referring to the Protestant claim that salvation is an unearned gift (cf. ex gratia), not a direct result of merit. sola lingua bona est lingua mortua: the only good language is a dead language: Example of dog Latin humor. sola scriptura: by scripture alone

  6. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    The "up" in "climb up" is not always redundant, as in the example "He climbed up and then fell down the mountain." Many other examples of pleonasm are redundant only if the speaker's knowledge is taken into account. For example, most English speakers would agree that "tuna fish" is redundant because tuna is a kind of fish.

  7. Empiricism - Wikipedia

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    For Avicenna , for example, the tabula rasa is a pure potentiality that is actualized through education, and knowledge is attained through "empirical familiarity with objects in this world from which one abstracts universal concepts" developed through a "syllogistic method of reasoning in which observations lead to propositional statements ...

  8. Common knowledge - Wikipedia

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    Common knowledge is not always stable, and can shift over time to create new common knowledge. Knowledge that was once considered common knowledge amongst a group, society, or community might later become known as false. For example, for centuries it was common knowledge in Europe that the Sun revolved around the Earth, but after years of ...

  9. Knowledge worker - Wikipedia

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    An architect is an example of a typical "knowledge worker" Knowledge workers spend a portion of their time searching for information. [5] They are also often displaced from their bosses, working in various departments and time zones or from remote sites such as home offices and airport lounges. [6]