0.9 Intro: Humes fork

Question 1

What are matters of fact? ( examples )

Answer 1

-A posteriori
-Synthetic
-Contingent

Question 2

What are relations of ideas?(examples)

Answer 2

-A priori
-Analytic
-Necessary

Question 3

What does matter of fact mean?

Answer 3

-Empirical things, truths relating to the world of sense and experience
-Way things actually happen to be
- These are LESS CERTAIN than relation of ideas as they rely on experiences

Question 4

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Question 5

Define a priori

Answer 5

Knowledge of propositions which don’t require sense experience to be known as true or false

Question 6

Define a posterior

Answer 6

Knowledge of propositions that could only be known to be true or false with sense experience

Question 7

What is an analytic proposition

Answer 7

• Is true or false in virtue of the meanings of words
  -Bachelor is an unmarred man = analytically true
  -Square has 4 sides= analytically false

Question 8

What is a synthetic proposition?

Answer 8

• Not analytic but true or false depending on how the world is
• Jhon is blad

Question 9

What is a necessary truth?

Answer 9

-a proposition that is always true as it could not have been otherwise
-When one thing requires the other to be true
-17 is a prime numeber

Question 10

What is contingent truth?

Answer 10

-Proposition that could be either true or false, state of affairs that may not hold depending on how the world actuallyis
-Not necessarly true or false
-there is only one moon