Lesson 1-5 Flashcards
Mainly focused on answering questions related to what is real.
Metaphysics
Focuses on reasoning and sound argument
Logic
objective standards for determining what is beautiful
Aesthetics
branch of philosophy that deals with knowledge.
Epistemology
deals with rightness and wrongness of actions.
Ethics
branch of philosophy that is concerned with the natural environment and human beings
place within it.
Environmental philosophy
synthesis of knowledge and experiences
into insights that deepen one’s understanding.
Wisdom
known to have happened
Opinion
analysis based from facts, and is measurable
and observable.
Objective information
Someone tries to win support for an
argument or idea by exploiting his or her
opponent pity.
APPEAL TO PITY
It says the notion is true because it is not yet been proven false and vice versa
Appeal to ignorance
A proposition must be true
because many or most people
believe it.
Appeal to people
Attacking
the person who asserts the
argument to disprove his/her
claim. Attacking the person
being talked about to justify
the argument about him/her
Against a people
Double meaning
of a term or word. Confusing
meanings.
Equivocation
Generalization based on insufficient evidence.
Hasty generalization
Something is
true of the whole from the
fact that it is true of some
part of the whole.
Composition
Involves an
inference from the
attribution of some feature
to an entire class to the
possession of the same
features by each of its
individual members.
Division