FINAL EXAM Flashcards
(35 cards)
What is an inference
The steps in reasoning that moves from the premises to logical consequences.
Acts of intellect by certain judgments that derive another judgments
What is a premise
A statement that argues a claim that would induce a conclusion
A starting point for inference
Starting judgment in a inference
What is an conclusion
A judgement reached by reasoning
Derived by an inference
What is capacity
Innate or natural potential
What is a habit
“Hexis” kind of ability
acquired ability
What is action
An area concerned with theories about processs of human bodily movement
Define Science
Acquired ability that is rooted in a person’s intellect that’s a person’s capacity
Reason why “cause”
What is art
Habit of right reason that making something
Name the 7 liberal arts
Arthmetic Geometry Music Grammar Rhetoric Logic Liberal Art
Why would Socrates say that an example is not definition?
A defintion is a statement of a form that makes a thing to be a kind of thing it is whether it is a book or a horse or a pious action
Empirical Methods of Inquiry
Methods of observation or experiment
Why will empirical methods be inadequate in any attempt to answer Socrates’s question about the form of piety
Form of impiety
Dialectic
Certain art of discussion
State of the principle of contradiction.
The principle of the norm or asserts that nothing can be both be the case not be the case at the same time
What does it mean to say that the principle of contradiction is a normative
principle of reason that cant’t be assess
What is the proper object of the 5 external senses
Hearing: Sound
Sight: Colors
Smell: Roses
Taste: food
Touch: objects
Explain the difference between Phantasm and Universal
Phantasm: is the sense impression that are retained through the imagination
Universal: shared by all forms of that kind
Compare and contrast between sense and intellectual knowledge
Sense: Is the uniquness of the individuality of sensible attributes.
Intellectual: Capacity that grasps the universal and this kind of knowledge
What is a sign
are the concepts and signs for real things
What is a instrumental sign
Is a thing that exist in its own right
What is a formal sign
is a sign that has no existence apart from its role
What is an abstraction
The act of an intellect that apprehends a nature that is common to many objects and apprehend the phantasms representing the individual objects
What do we mean by the essence of a thing
Distinguishing the accidents that belong to the individual object.
The essence exist in the thing kind of thing it is.
What is an accident
The attributes that belong or not belong to an object while its remains the same in kind.
