Meanings Of Philosophical Terms

Discourse: Talky talky

Hermeneutics: What I mean

Logic: Why I'm right

Apologetics: Why you're wrong

Fallacy: Why you don't even know you're wrong

Epistemology: How I know I'm right and you're wrong

Existential: Don't feel bad: everyone is wrong

Post-modern: Who cares if I'm right or wrong

Systemic: Your wrongness goes deep

Neo-: You're as wrong as those old guys

Crypto-: I'm the only one who knows your wrongness

Paradoxical: It only looks like I'm wrong

Hyper-: You'd be right if you could learn to state things paradoxically

Grand meta-narrative: He thinks he's right about everything

Paleo-: You're as wrong as that new-fangled stuff

phenomenal: I only seem wrong

transcendental: If anyone's right, I must be

false consciousness: Deep down you know I'm right

subjugated/subaltern: They're right, but everyone says they're wrong

bourgeois: They pay good money to be right

proletariat: We're wrong now, but wait for the revolution!

deconstruction: w/ri(gh)t(e)

Platonism: I know the very Form of rightness

Thomism: 1. It would appear that you are right.

Categorical imperative: If you're right, let's make it a universal law

Problematize: I'll show you how wrong you really are

Cartesianism: cogito ergo rectitudo

ontological argument: I am so right that none greater can be conceived

epiphenomenon: This sentence is neither right nor wrong, as it is the product of a chemical reaction.

post-: Now we're finally right

eclectic: You are wrong in a lot of different ways

synthesis: You are so wrong that you are right

exegesis (cf. hermeneutics): I know what it means and I can discourse all day about it

presuppositional: I'm right and I won't even discuss it with you

-istic: You started with something good and made it really stupid

dialectic: I'm right, but then again, I may be wrong

weltanschauung: How you see the world when your brain has been made into
mush by German philosophy

deconstruction: If I grind you up I can show that even your molecules are wrong

bayesian: I'll give you even money that I'm right

teleological: You've got everything backwards

a priori: We'll just assume that I am right

a posteriori: Having seen who won, I can assure you I was on that side all the time