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In this lecture, we cover the last six of the Ten Categories.
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We continue our survey of Aristotle’s Ten Categories by looking at the three intrinsic accidents of quantity, quality, and relation.
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If you really want to know what you’re talking about, how should you go about it? How many different kinds of things are there to know about something? Aristotle wondered that too, and his answer has help up pretty well for 2500 years.
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In this final lecture of chapter 2, we cover three more fallacies of clarity plus the “golden rule” for dealing with ambiguities. I also offer some advice on how to make a study guide for this or any other course.
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In this lecture, we cover our first widely recognized fallacy: equivocation. Along the way, we also cover the general topic of fallacies, and why there is no universally recognized list of them. Finally, we cover the extremely important principle of “hermeneutical generosity.”
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Turning from concepts to the terms that we use to communicate them, we learn two more ways to analyze whether we really know what we’re talking about.
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