- Abstract possibility(contrasted with historical conditions)
- Theoretical situations or scenarios that could happen in theory but don't necessarily reflect what actually exists in reality.
- Alienation(the key concept being debated)
- A state where workers feel disconnected or separated from the things they make, their own labor, or themselves—often because they have no control over what they create.
- Historical conditions of production(what the analysis is limited to)
- The real, actual circumstances and systems in which things are made or created at a specific time in history—like factories, tools, workers, and economic systems that actually existed.
- Normative question(as contrasted with genetic questions about causation)
- A question about what should be true or what counts as right, proper, or justified—as opposed to what actually is the case.
- P2(Provides the truth conditions for proposition (7), identified as proposition (7): George Bush does not exist.)
- The principle that proposition (7) is true if and only if George Bush does not exist — a modalized instance of the Tarski truth-schema 's is true iff s'.
- begging the question(Listed alongside equivocation as an example of a fallacy that highlights important issues in real-life arguing)
- A fallacy also known as circular reasoning
- philosophical analysis(Distinguished from purely linguistic investigation; requires prior knowledge of the facts.)
- The consideration of a given expression and its analysis in order to find another expression which says more clearly what the original expression said less clearly.