Intro- Parts Of Philosophy Flashcards
5 main parts of philosophy
Metaphysics Epistemology Ethics Logic Aesthetics
Metaphysics
Reality and being
Non physical world
Aesthetics
Beauty in music and art
Philosophy
Love of wisdom/knowledge
Epistemology
Theory of knowledge
-scepticism, believe doubts in existence of world
Ethics
Moral philosophy
What is an argument
The premises that are being offered as reasons for believing the truth of the one
Friday
John wears jeans on Friday
John is wearing jeans
Deductive argument
The truth of their premises guarantees the truth of their conclusion
Inductive argument
Truth of premises makes conclusion more or less probable
Valid
Premises follow from conclusion
Sound
Premises follow from the conclusion and the premises are true
A priori statement
Something that we know is true without looking at the world around us
A posteriori
Statement whose justification does reply upon experience
Analytic statement
Systems whose predicate concept is contained in its subject concept
Synthetic statement
Statement whoes predicate concept is not contained in its subject concept