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| series of sentences in which some of them (the premises) are supposed to provide evidence in favor of the last (conclusion) |
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| if A's (argument's) premises are true, then A's conclusion cannot be false |
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| A is valid and all of A's premises are true |
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| 1. If P, then Q 2. P 3. Therefore Q |
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| 1. If P, then Q 2. Not Q 3. Therefore not P |
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| it is permissible, OK, allowed, possible to do, "all right," or acceptable from the point of view of morality |
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| if it's not morally right to perform act token, a |
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| a non-repeatable concrete individual action; something that is performed at one time and in one place |
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| an action is the person who performs the action |
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| non-trivial, interesting statement of this form: an act token, a, is morally right if and only if |
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| a collection of people, living in proximity to each other, sharing a language, religion, cuisine, and culture |
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| the system of moral rules that is accepted among the members of society x at t |
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| the result of subtracting the total number of dolors of pain in the consequence of a from the total number of hedons of pleasure in the consequence of a |
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| no alternative to a has a higher hedonic utility than a has |
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| general principle identifying S's reason for performing a; it explains what circumstances S takes herself to be in, what she is trying to accomplish in performing a, and why |
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| it is possible that every agent acts on m in all applicable situations |
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| person who believes that some part of his own society's moral code is incorrect; S believes that acts declared to be wrong by that code are in fact right, or that acts declared to be right by that code are in fact wrong |
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| an act token is morally right if and only if in doing x, the agent of x treats others as he/she would have others treat himself/herself |
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| an act token is morally right if and only if A is permitted by God's commands |
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| an act token is morally right if and only if it is permitted by the moral code of the society of its agent at the time of its performance |
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| an act token, a, is morally right if and only if a maximizes hedonic utility |
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| an act token, a, is morally right if and only if in performing a, the agent of a acts from a universalizable maxim |
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