Glossary

  1. Argument – “a series of statements with the goal of persuading someone of something. When they’re successful, arguments start with a specific point of view, something that the reader doubts; by the end of the argument, the reader has been convinced and no longer doubts this view.”

2. Art -the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination, typically in a visual form such as painting or sculpture, producing works to be appreciated primarily for their beauty or emotional power

3. Philosophy – “the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.”

4. Entity – “a thing with distinct and independent existence”

5. Fallacy – “a mistaken belief, especially one based on unsound argument”

6. Memory – “the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information”

7. Empiricism – “the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience. Stimulated by the rise of experimental science”

8. First order Desire – “a desire for anything other than a desire”

9. Marxism – “a method of socioeconomic analysis that views class relations and social constructs using a materialistic interpretation of historical development and takes a dialectal view of social transformation”

10. Moral – “concerned with the principles of right and wrong behavior and the goodness or badness of human character”

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