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Methods of Philosophizing Flashcards

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Science devoted to the discovery of the proper method of acquiring and validating knowledge.

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Epsitemology

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Knowledge acquired true knowledge

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Empiricist

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Thinking with use of our Mind

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Rationalist

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Process of acquiring knowledge

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Reality, Perception, Concept, Proposition, Inference

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To know is to know something

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Reality

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Is our contact to reality though senses. Knowledge begins with our perceptual knowledge

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Perception

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we notice what is similar

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concept

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statement that express assertion or a denial

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Proposition

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providing arguments

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Inference

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group of Statements- one or two premises and a conclusion.

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arguments

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Is a clear awareness and understanding of something.

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Knowledge

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Comprised of ideas and beliefs that we know to be true.

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Knowledge

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A product of question that allow for a clear answers provided by facts

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Knowledge

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Scientifically proven or proposition which are observed to be real.

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Facts

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statement about the world and reality that may or may not carry truth.
It is usually stated as short statement or sentences.

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Proposition

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Claims that required further examination to establish whether it is true or false

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statement

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In order to know whether the claim true or false it must undergo in the process of ______

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verification

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For science truth is something observable and ______

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empirical

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Knowledge is based on ______

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experience

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has various views that which can help us tackle concept of knowing the truth.

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Philosophy

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Philosophers emphasize ______ as a basis for determining truth

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belief

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“[‘True’] is a word we all understand, but if we try to explain it, we can easily get involved in a maze of confusion.”

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Frank Ramsey

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Physical faculties of seeking the truth by the human person

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External and Internal

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Seeing, hearing, smelling, tasting, and touching

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Memory, imagination, consciousness, and instinct

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Spiritual faculty of seeking the truth by the human person

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The goal of thinking is to know ________

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the ultimate truth

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Four characteristics of the ultimate truth

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  1. Resides in the intellect
  2. It is immutable
  3. It is absolute
  4. It is eternal
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The human person has two powers of the mind

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  1. The intellect (universally true)
  2. The will (Universally good)
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Universally true

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Universally good

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Thinking and reasoning, making wise decisions, pursue truths of a higher order

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The intellect

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conscience, moral decisions, action

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A judgement, viewpoint, or statement that is considered to be subjective

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It is formed based on the person’s understanding, feelings, or desires about matters, topics, issues, or concerns

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Considered as the central figure of modern philosophy

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Immanuel Kant

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“taking-something-to-be-true”

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Furwahrhalten

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Three ways of Furwahrhalten

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  1. Opinion
  2. Knowledge
  3. Belief
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Conscious acceptance of a claim without subjective or objective grounds/ foundation

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Conscious judgement on the basis of both subjective and objective grounds

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Conscious acceptance of a claim on the basis of a subjective ground but without any objective ground

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among the three ways of furwahrhalten, opinion is the most _____

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problematic

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It is neither subjectively or objectively sufficient

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A form of preliminary judging

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How to evaluate opinions

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  1. Source
  2. Reliability
  3. Purpose
  4. Bias
  5. Assumption
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To evaluate a source, one must consider

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a. reputation
b. audience whom it was intended for
c. whether authentic documents were provided as proof

47
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An idea or principle that a person accepts as true but makes no effort to prove or substantiate it

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Assumption

48
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Two types of fallacies

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Fallacies of relevance
Fallacies of Insufficient Evidence

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An argument that contains a mistake in reasoning

50
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mistakes in reasoning that occur because the premises are logically irrelevant to the conclusion.

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Fallacies of relevance

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mistakes in reasoning that occur because the premises, though logically relevant to the conclusion, fail to provide sufficient evidence to support the conclusion.

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Fallacies of insufficient evidence

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10 classifications of Fallacies of relevance

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Personal attack, appeal to pity, attacking the motive, bandwagon argument, look who’s talking, straw man, begging the question, red herring, scare tactics, equivocation

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When an arguer rejects a person’s argument or claim by attacking the person’s character rather than examining the worth of the argument or claim itself

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Personal attack

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When an arguer threatens harm to a reader or listener and this threat is irrelevant to the truth of the arguer’s conclusion

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Scare tactics

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When an arguer attempts to evoke feelings of pity or compassion, where such feelings, however understandable, are not relevant to the truth of the arguer’s conclusion

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Appeal to pity

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The idea is acceptable because it has been true for a long time

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Appeal to Tradition

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When an arguer states or assumes as a premise (reason) the very thing he is seeking to probe as a conclusion

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Begging the question

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Assuming a cause and effect relationship between related events

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Cause-and-effect

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Assuming that what is true of a part is true for the whole

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Fallacy of composition

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