Key Terms

Question 1

Rationality

Answer 1

Is or distinguishing characteristic- it’s what sets up apart from the beasts

“man is the rational animal”-aristotle

Question 2

Tripartite soul

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Deductive argument

Answer 3

If the premises are true, the argument is true.

Question 4

Arguments

Answer 4

Deductive

Inductive

Abductive

Argument by analogy

Question 5

Validity

Answer 5

If the premises are true, then your conclusion can’t be false

Question 6

Assertion

Answer 6

A linguistic act- either spoken or written that has truth value

Question 7

Truth value

Answer 7

The state of being true, false, or intermediate

Question 8

Propersition

Answer 8

The content of your assertion, the underlying meaning of what your saying

Question 9

Knowledge

Answer 9

Justified, true belief

Question 10

Justification

Answer 10

Evidence, or other support for your belief

Question 11

First person observation

Answer 11

Info you require through your first person senses

Question 12

Gettier cases

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Belief

Answer 13

Propositional attitude of truth

 - propositional attitude of disbelief
 - propositional attitude of belief

Question 14

Induction

Answer 14

Using past experience to make future predictions

Question 15

Philosophy

Answer 15

The study of fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an epidemic discipline

Question 16

Ethics

Answer 16

The branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles

Question 17

Metaphysics

Answer 17

Fundamental nature of the world

Question 18

Epistemology

Answer 18

Knowing about knowing

Question 19

Value theory

Answer 19

-Ethics -Right and wrong
How should I live ?

-Aesthetics -Beauty and art
Does beauty exist ?

Question 20

Logic

Answer 20

Answers (reasoning and arguments)

Question 21

Meta-ethics

Answer 21

Moral realism

• moral facts (right and wrong)
• where do moral facts come from ?

Question 22

Contingent

Answer 22

Depends on something else for it’s existence/ truth

Question 23

Necessary

Answer 23

Does not depend on anything else to exist/ be true