philosopher's toolkit

Question 1

What are the three branches of philosophy?

Answer 1

Branches of Philosophy
Metaphysics - concerned with the ultimate nature of things, eg: does God exist?
Epistemology - the study of knowledge, eg: “How do we know whether or not God Exists?”
Value Theory - concerned with ‘the good’ and ‘the right’, eg: “Does God determine what is morally right and what is morally wrong?”

Question 2

What is an argument?

Answer 2

A set of two or more sentences, one of which is the conclusion, and the others the premises.

Question 3

what is a good argument?

Answer 3

First, they must be valid.

Second, they should have only true premises.

Question 4

What is validity?

Answer 4

an argument is valid if and only if it is not possible for the premises to be true and the conclusion false.
That means if the premises are true, then the conclusion has to be true.

Question 5

What is soundness?

Answer 5

If an argument is valid, and all its premises are true, then we say that the argument is sound.

Question 6

What is a thought experiment?

Answer 6

An experiment to test our intuitions about claims or positions. They’re called “experiments” because we can
tweak their conditions like variables and see whether our intuitions change or remain the same.
The Experience machine is a very famous thought experiment.

Question 7

What is Hedonism?

Answer 7

A philosophy in which the only thing that is intrinsically

good is pleasure, and the only thing that is intrinsically bad is pain.