Philosophy A-Level
Diagnosis and resolution of paradoxes
What Diagnosis and resolution of paradoxes means in Philosophy A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Working out where the trouble arises, such as an ambiguous term, a false premise, an invalid step, or a genuine tension in our concepts, and asking which element should be revised.
Topics that use Diagnosis and resolution of paradoxes
- Subject content: Philosophical terminology (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- A priori knowledge
- A priori/a posteriori distinction
- Analytic/synthetic distinction
- Certainty versus necessity
- Claim type versus truth value
- Consistency
- Containment of predicate in subject
- Contradiction as a test for analyticity
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