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Predicate
a quality or property of something
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Analytic
statement that is true by definition
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Synthetic
describes a statement to see if it is true or false
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Priori knowledge
knowledge that is gained from reasoning, known prior to experience
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Posterioi
knowledge that is gained from experience, known after experience
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Contingent
something which depends on something else for existence, it can be imagined not to exist
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Necessary
something that doesn't depend on anything else for its existence - it cannot not exist
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Incoherent
philosophical argument which fails because it is illogical
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