DEFINITIONS

Question 1

The Problem Of Other Minds.

Answer 1

that we do not know whether others have conscious thoughts.

Question 1

What is Solipsism?

Answer 1

The view or theory that the self (consciousness) is all that can be known to exist.

Exp: I am the only mind which exist or my mental states are the only mental states.

Question 2

Justified True Belief (JTB)

Answer 2

theory of knowledge: a true belief that is accepted and corresponds to how things are in the world.

*true belief that has proper evidence.

Question 3

Empirical Evidence

Answer 3

Based on observations or experiences rather than theory or pure logic.

Question 4

Dogmatic Assurance

Answer 4

You think you are right and that everyone is wrong.

*closes the mind against speculation.

Question 5

Philosophy

Answer 5

A Greek compound word meaning wisdom of love.

omniscience - knowing everything
omnipotence- having great or unlimited power
omnibenevolence - perfect goodness.

Question 6

proposition

Answer 6

often characterized as the primary bearer of truth or falsity.

*characterized as the kind f thing that can declare sentences and if they are true or false.
*Must be one or the other cannot be both.

Question 7

Strong and Poor arguments

Answer 7

• premises must be acceptable without proof or explanation.
• premises must support the conclusion and have a distinction between the two kinds of arguments: deductive and inductive.

Question 8

Empiricism/Empiricist

Answer 8

Do not believe that innate ideas exist though that all knowledge originates in the senses.

Question 9

Rationalism/Rationalist

Answer 9

appeals to the deductive reasoning as the source of knowledge and justification.

*reasoning should be exercised independent off the senses.
*relied on two central concepts: innate ideas and a priori knowledge.

Question 10

Secondary Qualities

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Color, sound, taste, smell and touch.

*can be described as the effect things have on people, thus do not provide objective facts about things.

Question 11

Conceptual analyisis

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A distinction in drawing boarders around concepts and ideas, determining what kinds of things are excluded.

• acquaintance knowledge
• competence or skill knowledge
• propositional or descriptive knowledge.

Question 12

Primary Qualities

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Properties of objects that are independent.

*exist in the object itself and is necessary for the object to have reality.

Question 13

property dualism

Answer 13

characteristics of conscious intelligence, plus properties of pain and the sensation of red.

*mental phenomenas are non physical properties of physical substances but not committed to the existence of non-physical substances.

Question 14

Epiphenomenalism

Answer 14

‘Epi’ - means above.

this is the oldest version of property dualism, in which mental states are caused by physical states in the brain but do not cause anything.

*holding mental phenomenas by actions and behaviour,

Question 15

Interactionist Property dualism:

Answer 15

That a mental property has casual effects on the brain.

*it is a systematic interaction with the brains physical properties caused by desires and decisions.

*mental properties are said to be emergent.

Question 16

Element-property Dualism

Answer 16

mental properties that are irreducible though not emergent.

*has the advantages of clarity.