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what are the 3 skills for philosophy?

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  • Analysis
  • Assessment
  • argument
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define philosophy.

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•The love of wisdom

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professors definition of wisdom?

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•Wisdom is “knowledge rightly applied”

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what are the 2 components of an argument?

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  • Form/logic

* Content/rhetoric

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what are the 4 topical divisions of philosophy?

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  • Metaphysics-what is real?
  • Epistemology- what is reasonable?
  • Ethics- what is good?
  • Aesthetics- what is beauty?
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what are the chronological periods of philosophy?

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  • Ancients-ontology
  • Medieval-theology
  • Moderns-epistemology
  • Post-moderns-language
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what are the tests for truth?

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  • Correspondence
  • Coherence
  • pragmatic
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what are the 2 major divisions of metaphysics?

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  • What is the nature of reality

* What are the basic ways of being

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what are the 4 Socratic virtues?

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  • Wisdom
  • Courage
  • Temperance
  • justice
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what is platos major contribution to philosophy?

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Foundational in establishing the integrated philosophical enterprise

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Who were the major influences on Plato and in what way?

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  • Pythagoras- universal language
  • Heraclitus- dualism/logos chaos
  • Socrates- ethics
  • Parmenides- knowing: eternal and unchaging
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According to Plato, what are the two metaphysical components?

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form & matter

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Aristotle was the first to _________ in philosophy

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•Distinguish branches of inquiry

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What are the four Aristotelian causes?

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  • Material cause
  • Efficient cause
  • Final cause
  • Formal cause
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what are the seven functions of the mind?

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  • Language
  • Memory
  • Imagination
  • Reason
  • Will
  • Emotion
  • Percieve
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Leibnez’s _______ can be created or destroyed but no by any “natural” means

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monads

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Among the most important teachings of _______ are the four noble truths

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Buddha

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What are the four general approaches to explaining the difference between knowledge and any merely “true belief?”

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  • Normative
  • Skepticism
  • Virtue epistemology
  • Naturalistic
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According to Locke our minds begin as a _______ and all knowledge comes from _______

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  • Blank slate

* experience

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Hume takes ______ to be the central idea of all reasoning

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causation

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Hume’s fork is the idea that for a belief to be justified it must be either a _______ or a ______

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  • Relation of ideas

* Matter of fact

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______ and _______ believed that there are no substances

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  • Berkely

* hume

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Justified true belief is often advanced as a candidate for a definition of _______

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knowledge

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