Unit 4

Question 1

Tri parte definition of knowledge

Answer 1

Belief
Truth
Knowledge

Question 2

Belief

Answer 2

Linguistic proposition, an indicative statement with truth (propasition value)

Question 3

Truth

Answer 3

Matching proposition and states of affairs

Question 4

Justification

Answer 4

Rational account, logos

Question 5

Three moments to every method

Answer 5

Terminus a quo
Terminus per quem
Terminus ad quem

Question 6

Terminus a quo

Answer 6

Point from which (beginning) a premise. examples, axiom, futuristic,hypothesis, proposition

Question 7

Terminus per quem

Answer 7

Point through which the middle ( inference, deduction, induction)

Question 8

Terminus ad quem

Answer 8

Point to which (end)

Question 9

Explain the getter problem.

Answer 9

He offers 2 accounts of justified true beliefs that a reader will not want to call knowledge. He pokes fun at the tri parte definition of knowledge .

Basic John drives jeeps,

• it’s justified to believe that either John is driving a jeep or he is in Barcelona
• for some reason John is in Barcelona,
• this is a justified true belief , but doesn’t really constitute knowledge,

The wrong part of the proposition is true.

Question 10

What is the effect of a formal fallacy on a formal argument

Answer 10

The whole argument is necicarily invalid
Unsolved
We don’t know if the conclusion is true or not

Question 11

philosophy

Answer 11

the love and pursuit of knowledge and truth

Question 12

what does formal logic have to do with truth

Answer 12

nothing. It is the science of validity not the science of truth