Key Terms Flashcards
Rationality
Is or distinguishing characteristic- it’s what sets up apart from the beasts
“man is the rational animal”-aristotle
Tripartite soul
Rational/logical- seeks truth and is swayed by facts and arguments.
Spirited/emotion- how feeling fuel your actions
Appetitive/physical- drives you to eat, have sex, and protect yourself
Deductive argument
If the premises are true, the argument is true.
Arguments
Deductive
Inductive
Abductive
Argument by analogy
Validity
If the premises are true, then your conclusion can’t be false
Assertion
A linguistic act- either spoken or written that has truth value
Truth value
The state of being true, false, or intermediate
Propersition
The content of your assertion, the underlying meaning of what your saying
Knowledge
Justified, true belief
Justification
Evidence, or other support for your belief
First person observation
Info you require through your first person senses
Gettier cases
Situations in which one can have justified the belief, but not knowledge
“You don’t know something if you simple stumbles into the right answer”
-Edmund Gettier
Belief
Propositional attitude of truth
- propositional attitude of disbelief - propositional attitude of belief
Induction
Using past experience to make future predictions
Philosophy
The study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an epidemic discipline
Ethics
The branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles
Metaphysics
Fundamental nature of the world
Epistemology
Knowing about knowing
Value theory
-Ethics -Right and wrong
How should I live ?
-Aesthetics -Beauty and art
Does beauty exist ?
Logic
Answers (reasoning and arguments)
Meta-ethics
Moral realism
- moral facts (right and wrong)
- where do moral facts come from ?
Contingent
Depends on something else for it’s existence/ truth
Necessary
Does not depend on anything else to exist/ be true
