exam phill

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PHILOSOPY means

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love of wisdom

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Deals with the nature of the world and everything that
exists.

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metaphysics

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often considered the first
Greek philosopher, proposed that everything was made of
water.

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THALES 624-475 BCE

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claimed that everything was in a
state of flux or perpetual movement, and that everything
would start and end with fire.

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HERACLITUS
535-475 BCE

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• Deals with knowledge and knowing.
• In studying knowledge, the philosopher concerns himself
with questions about truth whether it is even possible to know
what is true

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epistemology

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• deals more with how we live and act

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value theory

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deals with moral principles, We’re interested in
how to live and act as a member of a society, as rational
beings.

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ethics

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deals with principles of beauty and artistic
rate. beauty is the main concern and whether it is possible
to actually have a standard of beauty of all

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aesthetics

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who once said that a man is a rational animal

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ARISTOTLE
384-322 BCE

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the use of arguments also called premises. the goal of philosophical discourse

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logic

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often said to start from the general and end with the specific

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deductive argument

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characterized by predictive power ( probabilities )

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inductive argument

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story, picture, or other piece of art that uses symbols to
convey a hidden or ulterior meaning, typically a moral
or political one

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allegory

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one of the most famous philosophical concepts in the
history of human civilizations

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allegory of the cave

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It originated from two Greek words, episteme
which means ‘knowledge’, and logos which
means ‘study’ or ‘discourse’.

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epistemology

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type of knowledge
that we acquire as
we experience the
world.
‘common sense’
knowledge

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personal knowledge

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type of knowledge that is
particular for skills, type of
knowledge that you can
practice, and usually
involves motor function

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practical knowledge

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type of knowledge that
makes a claim: it
proposes something to
be true

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propositional knowledge

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When one makes a
claim, he must have
faith that his claim is
true.

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belief

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even if you had the
belief that you will be
exempted, but
because your belief
did not correspond to
the truth, then you
did not know that you
will be exempted

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truth

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Plato’s dialogues, he
proposed that to truly
know means having the
ability to explain and
reason about it

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justification

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the claim of the conclusion are not supported by the premises

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fallacy of irrelevance

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argument to the man. consists of an attack to the person who is speaking the argument rather than to the argument itself

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ad hominem

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an appeal to the stick. punish someone inorder to force him to behave how you want him to

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ad baculum

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an appeal to misery. in a form of verbal (crying) appeals to a persons emotion to convince someone

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ad misericordiam

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appeal to hypocrisy commit by justifying our wrong actions because someone has done it as well

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to quoque

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a person asserts that one occurrence leads to another and so on until a terrible conclusion is reached

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fallacies of presumption

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a sequence of claim that will cause another event which will cause another event and so on ( domino theory )

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slippery slope

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when we mistakenly assume that what is true for the parts must also be true for the whole

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fallacy of composition

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what we mistakenly assume that what is true is true for the whole part

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fallacy of division

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fallacy that we commit due to our limitations in language

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fallacies of ambiguity

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when we use a single term with two or more meanings

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fallacy of equivocation