Chapter 2 Flashcards
Why would Socrates say that an example is not definition?
A defintion is a statement of a form that makes a thing to be a kind of thing it is whether it is a book or a horse or a pious action
Why is any example of an oak tree inherently ambigous as an explanation of meaning of an Oak tree
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Empirical Methods of Inquiry
Methods of observation or experiment
Why will empirical methods be inadequate in any attempt to answer Socrates’s question about the form of piety
The form of impiety
Dialetic
Certain art of discussion
State of the principle of contradiction.
The principle of the norm or asserts that nothing can be both be the case not be the case at the same time
What does it mean to say that the principle of contradiction is a normative
principle of reason that cant’t be assess
