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Benefits os studying philosophy
We can develop our ability
to critically on variety of
ideas and social issues.
PHILOSOPHY AND AREAS OF
INQUIRY
Arts
Science
Politics
Branches of Philosophy
Metaphysics
Logic
Aesthetic
Epistemology
Ethics
Environmental philosophy
Mainly focused
on answering questions
related to what is real.
Metaphysics
Focuses on reasoning
and sound argument
Logic
objective
standards for determining
what is beautiful
Aesthetic
branch of
philosophy that deals with
knowledge.
Epistemology
deals with rightness
and wrongness of actions.
Ethics
branch of philosophy that is
concerned with the natural
environment and human beings
place within it.
Environmental philosophy
synthesis of
knowledge and experiences
into insights that deepen
one’s understanding.
Wisdom
accumulation
of facts and information
Knowledge
known to have
happened or
Opinion
analysis based from
facts, and is measurable
and observable.
Objective information
Someone tries
to win support for an
argument or idea by
exploiting his or her
opponent pity.
Appeal to pity
It says
the notion is true because it
is not yet been proven false
and vice versa
Appeal to ignorance
A
proposition must be true
because many or most people
believe it.
Appeal to people
Attacking
the person who asserts the
argument to disprove his/her
claim. Attacking the person
being talked about to justify
the argument about him/her.
Against a person
Double meaning
of a term or word. Confusing
meanings.
Equivocation
Generalization based on
insufficient evidence.
Hasty Generalization
Something is
true of the whole from the
fact that it is true of some
part of the whole.
Composition
Involves an
inference from the
attribution of some feature
to an entire class to the
possession of the same
features by each of its
individual members.
Division
Committed
when one appeals to force or
the threat of force to bring
about the acceptance of a
conclusion.
Appeal to force
Cause is
incorrectly identified.
Concluding one thing caused
another, simply because they
are regularly associated.
False cause
form of
an argument where the
conclusion is assumed in one
of the premises.
Begging the question