Exam One Flashcards
According to this view no moral claims are true, and No moral claims are false either
Expressivism/ noncognitivism
According to this you their truths about morality that are true regardless of what anyone thinks
Ethical objectivism
According to this view their subject give moral truth as a result of the moral beliefs of a particular people
Individual relativism/ ethical subjectivism
According to this view there are no truths of any sort about morality because all more claims are false
Error theory
According to this view, moral claims are subjectively true because groups of people except or indorse those claims
Cultural relativism
Something we learn by experience there are empirical truths. We have to observe things in order to see. Example by tasting, touching, facts about science
Empirical
Without blank experience. Doesn’t require us to use any tools. Prior true example is mathematics. Don’t need scientific tools
Prior reasoning
What true is morality
It is a prior true because we can’t physically see the wrongs and rights
Two supporting claims, evidence of what someone wants to convince of something .support
CHAINS OF REASONINGS
Argument
Is an argument statement and have to give reasonings why it’s true. Supporting claims
Premise
The end point of an argument. Has to have some. That shows how the evidence is true. Wraps up to supporting claims in a paragraph
Conclusion
Always going to be true no matter the supporting claims. We want our argument to be structured so we have a well put conclusion we want a what?
Valid argument
When should we except the conclusion of an argument
When the truth of the premises guarantees the conclusions truth is logical validity
The second reasoning why why we would except the conclusion of an argument
When all of a valid arguments primises are true logical soundness
what does it take for an argument to be valid
If all premises of this argument were true then the conclusion would have to be true it is impossible for one into to be true and three to be false. It passes her test for logical validate it he with flying colors. But the argument is still a bad one not because of any logical error because there is any false premise