Final review Flashcards
Tropes
Words with a common place
What are experts?
People who can perform better in certain area than the general public
Dialogic Expertise
Expertise based on many people talking
What are wikipedia’s five pillars of acceptance?
neutral point of view, free licensing, respectful domain, and no firm rules or policies.
What is traditional expertise reliant on?
It is fundamentally reliant on adherence to accepted practices of knowing
What is plato’s world of forms?
A place where everything is perfect, a place that this world is based off of
What is dialectic?
A philosophical method that provides true knowledge
What is socratic?
Very questioning, scared students into learning
What is techne?
An experience, habitude, or knack
According to Gorgias what is rhetoric?
An art used to convince people
According to socrates/plato what is rhetoric?
Rhetoric is a way to tell people to get something or side one way without teaching them as to why they should view that thing in a certain way
What does dialectic have to do with plato’s theory of forms?
Dialectic is the process of finding the object closest to its ideal form
What do sophists do according to plato?
They just try to sell things and convince people in a sly way. They are greedy
What is Protagoras’ homo menus thesis?
Man is the measure of all things. What humans know is constrained by their senses
What is truth to plato?
Truth is absolute and exists only in the world of forms
What is truth to sophists?
Truth is constructed in the community
Doxa
Doxa is the publics opinion or belief. Must know dosa in order to be persuasive