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| 4465 | Note that "is" can assert existence, or predication, or identity, or classification |
| 4686 | Fallacies are errors in reasoning, 'formal' if a clear rule is breached, and 'informal' if more general |
| 7415 | Question-begging assumes the proposition which is being challenged |
| 7414 | What is true of a set is also true of its members |
| 6696 | The Ad Hominem Fallacy criticises the speaker rather than the argument |
| 4687 | Minimal theories of truth avoid ontological commitment to such things as 'facts' or 'reality' |
| 6516 | Monty Hall Dilemma: do you abandon your preference after Monty eliminates one of the rivals? |
| 24054 | Everything has a probability, something will happen, and probabilities add up |
| 3875 | If reality is just what we perceive, we would have no need for a sixth sense |
| 3876 | If my team is losing 3-1, I have synthetic a priori knowledge that they need two goals for a draw |
| 7734 | Maybe a mollusc's brain events for pain ARE of the same type (broadly) as a human's |
| 7735 | Maybe a frog's brain events for fear are functionally like ours, but not phenomenally |
| 3877 | Utilitarianism seems to justify the discreet murder of unhappy people |
| 6126 | Life is Movement, Respiration, Sensation, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction, Growth (MRS NERG) |
| 3873 | An omniscient being couldn't know it was omniscient, as that requires information from beyond its scope of knowledge |
| 3874 | How could God know there wasn't an unknown force controlling his 'free' will? |