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Philosophy Flashcards

1
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The term philosophy attributed to _________ as he is said to be the first to use it.

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Pythagoras

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The three classes of people by Pythagoras

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-Lovers of gain
-Lovers of honor
-Lovers of knowledge or wisdom

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3
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they seek profit who sell their wares for money

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Lovers of gain

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4
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they compete for honor

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Lovers of honor

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5
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they neither seek profit nor compete for honor, they are the spectators who seek for the truth

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Lovers of knowledge or wisdom

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6
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the fact or condition of being aware of something

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knowledge

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7
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the correct application of knowledge

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wisdom

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8
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literally means “after physics”

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Metaphysics

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9
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literally mean “Study of knowledge”

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Epistemology

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10
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study of the nature of reality

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metaphysics

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study of reasoning, ______ incorporates the analysis of the methods of deduction and induction

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logic

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12
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Study how the person ought to act and the search for a definition of a right conduct and good life

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ethics

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13
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the study of action

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ethics

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14
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study of knowledge

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metaphysics

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15
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comes from the Greek word aisthetikos, which means “sensitive” or “perceptive

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aesthetics

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16
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study of art

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aesthetics

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17
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people had already attempted to explain the origin of things and events or occurrences in nature

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pre-philosophical

18
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________ and ________continue the Miletian claim of a single, proper substance

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Heraclitus and Xenophanes

19
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he claimed the “unity of opposites”

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Heraclitus

20
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he claimed that there is a single God

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Xenophanes

21
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Western philosophy is said to have begun in the Ionic colonies of Asia Minor

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Pre-socratic

22
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known as the first Greek philosopher and the inquiry of searching for causes and principles of the natural world and various phenomena without relying on supernatural explanations and divine components.

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Thales

23
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The _________ believe that the cosmos is a structured system ordered by numbers

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Pythagoreans

24
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he believed that the earth floats on water

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Thales

25
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they believe that nature can be quantified

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Pythagoreans

26
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Considered the most flourishing. This period was dominated by three famous philosophers- Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle

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Socratic

27
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He taught that knowledge through concepts was the only true knowledge-

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Socrates

28
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he has greatly influenced Western philosophical tradition through Plato’s Dialogues

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Socrates

29
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The philosopher in this period mainly had to answer the problem of how to save the intellectual and moral life of the nation, which was threatened by materialism and skepticism

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Socratic

30
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He concluded that the concept, or the idea, was the only true reality

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Plato

31
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His method focuses on analyzing phenomena or experience and proving credible opinions about these experiences to arrive at adequate proof.

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Aristotle

32
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________ is the science of the idea, or, as we should say, of the unconditioned basis of phenomena

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Philosophy

33
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Lack of general agreement on how the subjects of concern may be defined.

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non-philosophical

34
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Refers to the acceptance that a statement is true or that something exists.

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belief

35
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________ is the aim of belief; falsity is a fault.

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truth

36
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The correspondence theory of truth states that the key to truth is the relation (correspondence) between propositions and the world.

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Correspondence theory of truth

37
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The coherence theory of truth states that the truth of any (true) proposition consists in it coherence with some specified set of propositions (or significant wholes).

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Coherence theory of truth

38
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“a belief is true if there exists an appropriate entity- a fact- to which it corresponds”

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Correspondence theory of truth

39
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Holds that a proposition is true if it is useful to believe it

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Pragmatic theory of truth

40
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similar to post-logic

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Correspondence theory of truth

41
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similar to logic

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Coherence theory of truth

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