Philosophy lesson 3

Question 1

Philosophizing

Answer 1

to think or express oneself in a philosophizing manners

Question 2

Truth

Answer 2

the property of being in accord with fact or reality

Question 3

Opinion

Answer 3

a judgement, viewpoint, or statement that is not conclusive rather than facts.

Question 4

Belief

Answer 4

an attitude that something is the case, or that some proposition about the world is true.

Question 5

Methods of Philosophizing

Answer 5

• Phenomenology
• existentialism
• Postmodernism
• Analytic Traditions
• Logical and critical thinking
• Fallacies

Question 6

Phenomenology

Answer 6

focuses on careful inspections and descriptions of phenomena and appearances defined as an object of conscious experiences.

Question 7

Existentialism

Answer 7

theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will.

Question 8

Postmodernism

Answer 8

movement that arose in the second half of the 20th century as a critical response to assumptions allegedly present in modernist philosophical ideas regarding culture, identity, history, or language that were developed

Question 9

Analytic Traditions

Answer 9

• also called linguistic philosophy
• a loosely related set of approaches to philosophical problems, dominant in Anglo-American philosophy from the early 20th century
• emphasizes the study of language and the logical analysis of concepts.

Question 10

Logical Thinking

Answer 10

how to evaluate arguments and reasoning

Question 11

Critical Thinking

Answer 11

a process of evaluation which uses logic to separate truth from falsehood, reasonable from unreasonable beliefs

Question 12

Fallacies

Answer 12

are common errors in reasoning that will undermine the logic of your arguments.