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The philosophical study of morality

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Ethics or Moral philosophy

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Beliefs concerning right and wrong, good and bad; They can include judgments, values, rules, principles, and theories

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Morality

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the scientific study of moral beliefs and practices

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Descriptive ethics

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the study of principles, rules or theories that guide our actions and judgments

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Normative ethics

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The study of the meaning and logical structure of moral beliefs

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Metaethics

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The application of moral norms to specific moral issues or cases, particularly those in a profession such as medicine or law

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Applied ethics

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Valuable as a means to something else

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Instrumentally (or extrinsically) valuable

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Valuable for its own sake

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Intrinsically valuable

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The theory that moral truths exist and that they do so independently of what individuals or societies think of them

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Objectivism

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the view that an action is morally right if ones culture approves of it

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Cultural relativism

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the view that an action is morally right if one approves of it

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Subjective relativism

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The view that moral utterances are neither true nor false but are expressions of emotions or attitudes

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Emotivism

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An assertion that something is or is not the case

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Statement

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A group of statements, one of which is supposed to be supported by the rest

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Argument

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A supporting statement in an argument

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Premise

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The statement supported in an argument

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Conclusion

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Terms that often appear in arguments to signal the presence or a premise or conclusion, or to indicate that an argument is deductive or inductive

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Indicator words

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an argument that is supposed to give logically conclusive support to its concern

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Deductive argument

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An argument that is supposed to offer probable support to its conclusion

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Inductive argument

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A deductive argument that does in fact provide logically conclusive support for its concern

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Valid argument

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A deductive argument that does not offer logically conclusive support for the concern

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Invalid argument

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An inductive argument that does in fact provide probable support for its conclusion

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Strong argument

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An inductive argument that does not give probable support to the conclusion

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Weak argument

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A strong argument with true premises

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Cogent argument

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A deductive argument whose premises are true
Sound argument
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A deductive argument with one or more false premises
Unsound argument
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An argument that has at least one conditional statement (an if-then statement) as a premise
Conditional argument
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The "if" part of a conditional statement; the condition that, if true, leads to the consequent
Antecedent
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The "then" part of a conditional statement; the result that follows if the antecedent is true.
Consequent