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PHILO[SOPHY]

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Philo:Love of Sophy: Wisdom

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Socrates’ Crimes

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  1. Blasphemy (athens)
  2. Treason
  3. Corrupting the Youth
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The Socratic Method of Teaching

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1 - ASK them what they believe
2 - Listen
3 - Changes

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Epistemology

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The theory of knowledge. Knowledge (facts) Opinion - Evidence

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Absolutist

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There’s one and only one truth to things and that can never change. Part of Plato’s Columns

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Existentialist

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Fall on Relativist Side.There are no essences of things, they are as they are defined and will change at any given moment.

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Rationalism

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Truth can be known through logic alone. Absolutist side.

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Empiricism

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Won’t believe it without physical proof.

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Absolutists

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use certainty

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Relativists

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rely on probability

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The weakness of Rationalism

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Everything starts with a generalization

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STAGE ONE OF 4 STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE

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Chained, shadows of objects, opinions are of authority

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STAGE TWO OF 4 STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE

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Unchained prisoner, one example, forms opinion - empiricism

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STAGE THREE OF 4 STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE

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Prisoners escaped, theorizes generalizations and rationalization

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STAGE FOUR OF THE FOUR STAGES OF KNOWLEDGE

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“The Mystic View” - Enlightened “grasping the essence of an object”

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Plato’s Allegory of the Cave

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Used to explain the Four stages of knowledge

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Descarte

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“I think and therefore I am” - The one statement that could never be false.

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Descarte was a

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Practicist - People will do what’s necessary to get what they want.

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Descarte believed

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Doubt everything your senses tell you.

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The church took away human reason

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Descarte gave it back

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Criticism of Descarte

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He seperated the mind and body too much. And suggested that science and relgion were too different entities that could be friends and help one another. Criticism against dualism.

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Rationalism

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Logic

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Empiricism

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Science

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Tip about Rationalism

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Even if you need a theory to make something make sense, you are using rationalism.

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Theories of Truth - COHERENCE Test of Truth

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A statement is true if it sticks with other statements that are true (Aristotle’s word for Plato’s Rationalism)

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Theories of Truth - CORRESPONDENCE Test of truth

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A statement is true if the statement matches the physical fact (Aristotle’s term for Empiricism)

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Theories of Truth - PRAGMATIC Test of Truth

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The pragmatic test of truth says a statement is true if believing it produces the desired results.

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William James

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The only true American philosopher

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