- Assuming the explanandum in the explanans(the specific logical error Hume identifies)
- A logical fallacy where you use the very thing you're trying to prove as part of your proof—like saying 'the universe must have a designer because only a designed universe has order,' when order is exactly what you were trying to explain.
- Dialogues(the literary form Plato chose for his works)
- Plato's philosophical writings that are written as conversations between characters (usually Socrates and others) debating ideas rather than as straightforward essays or arguments.
- Divine intelligent source(what theists argue must exist to explain order)
- A God or intelligent creator believed to have designed and ordered the universe intentionally.
- Hume(as the main philosopher discussed in this statement)
- David Hume was an 18th-century Scottish philosopher who argued that human knowledge comes from experience and observation rather than pure reasoning alone.
- Inferring(describing what someone does when they commit the fallacy—they infer something incorrectly)
- Drawing a conclusion based on available evidence or reasoning.
- explanandum(Methodological debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism)
- The phenomenon to be explained; anti-naturalists hold that normative terms appear in both the explaining and the explained elements of social inquiry.
- explanans(Methodological debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism)
- The explaining element in a social-scientific account; in naturalist approaches, rationality serves as an explanans used to explain away normative phenomena.
- fallacy(Whately's definition, Elements of Logic, Bk. III, intro.)
- Any unsound mode of arguing which appears to demand conviction and to be decisive of the question at hand, when in fairness it is not