5 0 4I n d e xMackie, J.L., 453
major premise, 167
major term, 167
manner, rule of
definition, 32, 34
violations of, 80
marginal utility, 267
marginal value, 267
Marquis, Don, 409–420
Marshall, Thurgood, 365
Marxism, 312, 330
material conditional, 137
Matthews, Chris, 90
maximax rule, 270
maximin rule, 270–271
McCain, John, 90
McDade, Joseph E., 238n2
“Mere Matter of Deduction, A”
(Smith), 108–109
metaphors, 36–37
Method of Concomitant
Variation, 235
Metro Broadcasting v. FCC, 368
Mill, John Stuart, 216–217, 235,
296, 328
Miller, Zell, 320
Mill’s methods, 216–217
minor premise, 167
minor term, 167
Misquoting Jesus (Ehrman), 458n
misses, 258
modal logic, 144
modern logic, 161–162
modesty of explanation, 199
modus ponens, 92
“Molecular Machines: Experimental
Support for the Design Infer-
ence” (Behe), 427–440
monetary value, expected, 263–266
Monty Python, 3
moral beliefs, 356, 453
“Moral Choice, A” (Gordon), 395–396
moral disagreements, 383–384
moral principles, 383–384
moral reasoning, 383–421
abortion. See abortion
analogical reasoning in ethics,
392–394
moral disagreements, 383–384problem clarification, 384–385
weighing factors, 394–395
Morgenbesser retort, 335
“must” in arguments, 64
mutually exclusive, 248narrative, 7
National Rifle Association (NRA),
344–346
natural selection, theory of, 332,
426–440. See also evolution,
theory of
Neanderthals, 210–211
necessary condition test (NCT),
216–217, 224–228
application of, 231–234
causal reasoning, 217–219, 221–222
necessary conditions, 216–219
negation, 122–125, 246–247
negative propositions, 155
negatives, universal, 155
“nevertheless” in arguments, 52
New Merriam-Webster Pocket
Dictionary, 291
Newton, Isaac, 303, 427–428
Nietzsche, Friedrich, 453
nonpropositional conjunction, 117
normality, 228–230
North Korea, 318–319
“not always” in arguments, 175n1
“not” in arguments, 123–124, 175n1
nuclear power, 315–316
nuclear weapons, 13–15, 79–80, 139obfuscation, 275
objections, raising, 68
objective moral values, 453
Occam’s razor, 199
O’Connor, Sandra Day, 283, 368,
370, 375
oil drilling, 74–76
“only if” in arguments, 175n2
opinion polls, 183–184
“or” in arguments, 122, 132
Origin of Species, The (Darwin),
427–429, 432. See also natural
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