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Question 1

apart from scientific truths, there are other domains in life in which we understand truth differently

Answer 1

Jurgen Habermas (1979)

Question 2

What is truth in objective domain(Corpuz et al., 2016)

Answer 2

Scientifically proven, backed by data-gathering, analysis and repeated verification

Question 3

What is truth in social domain(Corpuz et al., 2019)

Answer 3

Truth is analogous with the general agreement or consensus agreed by the society on what is right and wrong.

Question 4

What is truth in personal domain (Corpuz et al., 2016)

Answer 4

Truth is analogous to sincerity/consistency with our inner thoughts and intentions.

Question 5

Richard Rorty (1989)

Answer 5

Truth can be understood as what has passed “procedures of justification”

Question 6

How is Truth tested (Objective)

Answer 6

Tested against empirical evidences, and can be justified by data gathered from observation and analysis

Question 7

How is truth tested (Social)

Answer 7

Tested for its acceptability to a particular group of people in a particular time in history

Question 8

How is truth tested (Personal)

Answer 8

Tested against the consistency of the actions of the person who claims it. (Takes a whole lifetime of consistency in the actions and decision of the person who claims it)

Question 9

How do we know if something is true

Answer 9

can be justified using one of the senses
if its based on facts
consensus or common agreement
being able to prove a statement through actions
should be subject to tests to determine truth

Question 10

4 Methods of Philosophy

Answer 10

Phenomenology, Existentialism, Analytic Tradition, Logic

Question 11

Origin of Phenomenology

Answer 11

Greek word phainomenon- appearance
any object of conscious experience, that is, that which we are conscious

Question 12

How is phenomenological standpoint achieved?

Answer 12

Achieved through phenomenological reduction in which we eliminate certain aspects of our experience in consideration

Question 13

Existentialism

Answer 13

It is an outlook a worldview on how we understand the essence and the existence of things

Question 14

Jean-Paul Sartre’s definition of Existentialism

Answer 14

Existentialism emphasizes on free individual choice. Consciousness is always free to choose and free to negate the given features of this world

Question 15

Soren Kierkegaard’s definition of Existentialism

Answer 15

The authentic self if the personally chosen self rather than the public or “herd” identity

Question 16

We understand the world solely on our language game, that is our linguistic, social construct

Answer 16

Analytic Tradition

Question 17

Philosophical problems, puzzles, and errors are rooted in language and can be solved by the understanding of language and attention to its working

Answer 17

Analytic Philosophy

Question 18

What is Logic

Answer 18

analysis and construction of arguments

Question 19

What is Critical Thinking

Answer 19

distinguishing facts from opinions or personal feelings

Question 20

What is Deductive reasoning

Answer 20

drawing a conclusion from one broad judgment

Question 21

If two premise are logically constructed then the conclusion is logical as follows

Answer 21

Reed (2010)

Question 22

Two ways of phenomenological reduction

Answer 22

Bracketing, Intentionality

Question 23

Is a special viewpoint where he or she does not focus on the thing but our consciousness of thing

Answer 23

Phenomenological viewpoint

Question 24

What is natural attitude

Answer 24

Natural world is our ordinary, everyday viewpoint, and the ordinary stance of the natural sciences describing things and the state of affairs. (Solomon and Higgins, 2010)