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262 INDEX<br />

consequentialist reasoning, 168<br />

consistency, 60<br />

contraries, 60<br />

control experiment, 127<br />

conversational implicature, 12<br />

converse, 65<br />

correlation, 133<br />

creativity, 215, 223<br />

decision, 201<br />

strategic, 203<br />

decision diagrams, 211<br />

decision trees, 211<br />

defeasibility, 90<br />

definition, 21<br />

persuasive, 27<br />

precising, 24<br />

reportive, 22<br />

stipulative, 24<br />

by synonym, 27<br />

circular, 26<br />

genus-differentia, 28<br />

ostensive, 28<br />

denying the antecedent, 79<br />

destructive dilemma, 80<br />

disambiguation, 42<br />

disjunction<br />

exclusive, 63<br />

inclusive, 63<br />

divine comm<strong>and</strong> theory of morality, 162<br />

entailment, 61<br />

equivocation, 42<br />

extension, 22, 26<br />

fallacy, 173<br />

inappropriate assumption, 175<br />

conjunction, 250<br />

etymological, 29<br />

false dilemma, 176<br />

gambler's, 152<br />

hot h<strong>and</strong>, 153<br />

inconsistency, 174<br />

insufficiency, 178<br />

irrelevance, 177<br />

naturalistic, 162<br />

write-off, 35<br />

fishbone diagram, 142<br />

flowchart, 143<br />

fourfold path <strong>to</strong> good thinking, 5<br />

gobbledygook, 50<br />

groupthink, 228<br />

harm principle, 167<br />

hypothetical syllogism, 79<br />

induction, 87<br />

inductive strength, 89<br />

inference <strong>to</strong> the best explanation, 117<br />

intension, 26<br />

invalidating counterexample, 76<br />

linguistic pitfall, 41<br />

Littlewood's law, 154<br />

logical connective, 63<br />

logical consequence, 61<br />

logical equivalence, 62<br />

logical strength, 61<br />

meaning<br />

dis<strong>to</strong>rtion of, 45<br />

empty, 48<br />

incomplete, 44<br />

literal, 12<br />

Mill's methods, 125<br />

modus ponens, 77, 78<br />

modus <strong>to</strong>llens, 78<br />

moral absolutism, 164<br />

moral contextualism, 164<br />

moral principle, 166<br />

negation, 64<br />

normativity, 161<br />

novelty effect, 137<br />

placebo effect, 135<br />

population, 145<br />

possibility, 36<br />

premise, 69<br />

probability, 145<br />

Pygmalion effect, 137<br />

r<strong>and</strong>om sampling, 147<br />

reductio ad absurdum, 80<br />

regression fallacy, 153<br />

relocation, 47<br />

relative quantity, 149<br />

relativism, 54<br />

moral, 162<br />

right, 168<br />

sample, 145<br />

simplicity, 120<br />

slippery-slope argument, 166<br />

statistics, 145<br />

SWOT analysis, 203<br />

truth, 53<br />

vagueness, 43<br />

weasel word, 45

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