key words

• A posteriori arguments

  arguments based on experience
• A priori arguments

  Arguments based on reason
• Ontological

  To do with the nature of existence
• Contingent

  Depending on other things
• Necessary existence

  Existence which does not depend on anything else
• Predicate

  A term which describes a distinct characteristic of something
• Epistemic distance

  Distance in knowledge and understanding
• Logical fallacy

  Reasoning that has a flaw in its structure
• Reductio ad absurdum

  Reduce to absurdity- style of argument