Intro- Parts Of Philosophy Flashcards

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5 main parts of philosophy

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Metaphysics
Epistemology
Ethics
Logic
Aesthetics
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Metaphysics

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Reality and being

Non physical world

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Aesthetics

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Beauty in music and art

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Philosophy

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Love of wisdom/knowledge

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Epistemology

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Theory of knowledge

-scepticism, believe doubts in existence of world

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Ethics

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Moral philosophy

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What is an argument

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The premises that are being offered as reasons for believing the truth of the one

Friday
John wears jeans on Friday
John is wearing jeans

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Deductive argument

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The truth of their premises guarantees the truth of their conclusion

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Inductive argument

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Truth of premises makes conclusion more or less probable

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Valid

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Premises follow from conclusion

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Sound

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Premises follow from the conclusion and the premises are true

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A priori statement

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Something that we know is true without looking at the world around us

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A posteriori

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Statement whose justification does reply upon experience

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Analytic statement

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Systems whose predicate concept is contained in its subject concept

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Synthetic statement

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Statement whoes predicate concept is not contained in its subject concept

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