Quiz 2 Flashcards
(18 cards)
Subjective judgement
True if you think it is true
Objective judgement
It’s truth is independent of what you think
Relativistic
The view that if your culture and some other culture have different standards of truth or evidence, there is no independent way by which one culture’s standards can be seen to be more correct than the others
Relativistic arg from cultural/situational diff
It’s not universally accepted that p (for any p)
It’s not (objectively) true/false that p
Axiology
Theory of values
Axiology model
Moral (ethics) Religious Legal Political Artistic Etc.
Cognitivism
“objectivism”
Some moral value judgement are truth-apt
Non-cognitivism
“subjectivism”
No moral value judgement is truth-apt
Absolutism
Always without exception
IBE
An argument whose conclusion explains the cause of something
Psychology/Rhetoric
Persuasion
Art of persuasion
Logic/Argumentation
Truth
Vague
Has no clear meanings Example: Bald Rich Heap
Ambiguous
Are multiple meanings
Examples:
Rich
Bank
Ambiguous model
Semantic (lexical)
Syntatic (grammetical)
Grouping
Semantic
When a statement contains an expression that has more than one meaning
Syntax
Grammer sentence structure
Grouping
It is unclear if you are referring to a group or individual
