The word PHILOSOPHY comes from two Greek words. What (in English) does the word "PHILOSOPHY" LITERALLY mean? - correct answer
What official definition of philosophical wisdom did we learn in class? In other words, what is the official definition of the kind of "wisdom" that philosophy is in lov...
The word PHILOSOPHY comes from two Greek words. What (in English) does the word "PHILOSOPHY"
LITERALLY mean? - correct answer
What official definition of philosophical wisdom did we learn in class? In other words, what is the official
definition of the kind of "wisdom" that philosophy is in love with? - correct answer
Which part most directly shows that strength, beauty, and lucky guesses are not philosophical wisdom? -
correct answer
Which part most directly shows that knowledge of facts of common sense, without knowing why they
are the way they are, is not philosophical wisdom? - correct answer
Which part of the "official" definition of philosophical wisdom shows that philosophy is different from
science? - correct answer
Which part most directly shows that philosophical wisdom is something wider than wisdom in football
coaching, wisdom in biology, and wisdom in British Literature? - correct answer
Which part most directly shows that philosophical wisdom is not exactly the same thing as theological
wisdom? - correct answer
The term "common sense" can have many meanings, but we are using only one of those meanings in
this course. What do we mean by the term "common sense" in this course? - correct answer
Give some examples of things that we know by "common sense." - correct answer
TRUE or FALSE: As used in this course, the term "common sense" refers to the ideas handed down from
your ancestors in your culture, even when these ideas are about topics that are not obvious to everyone
, who encounters them. - correct answer FALSE. Common sense refers only to our inborn ability to
recognize VERY OBVIOUS facts/truths when we encounter them. But the statement that we are
assessing here erroneously states that "common sense" includes a set of opinions about topics that
would NOT be obvious to everyone who encountered them.
Fred is in another room and does not know that the stove in the kitchen is on. So he does not know that
the stove is hot. But you are in the kitchen, and you put your hand on the stove, and it burns you. TRUE
or FALSE: The fact that your hand was burned on the stove is a fact of common sense for you, even
though it is not obvious to
Fred. - correct answer TRUE.
Point out which part of the definition of "common sense" allows us to say that something can be a fact
of common sense for you even when it is not obvious to Fred. - correct answer The phrase "when we
encounter them." You and Fred both have common sense, because you both have the inborn ability to
recognize that your hand was burned WHEN YOU ENCOUNTER that fact. But Fred has not yet actually
encountered the fact that your hand was burned. So FRED has not been able to APPLY his common
sense to that topic yet, whereas YOU have been able to apply your common sense to that topic.
Therefore, you might actually know a fact of common sense that Fred does not know because you
happen to have encountered it whereas Fred has not encountered it. The fact became obvious to you
but not to Fred, even though you both equally have common sense.
In other words: The fact of having a burned hand is indeed obvious to anyone who truly encounters that
fact (namely, by getting a burned hand). But Fred has not encountered that fact himself (since he didn't
get a burned hand and wasn't even in the room to watch you get yours).
Which of the following tells you THAT some fact is true, but
not WHY that fact is true?
(If there is more than one correct answer, then select all the correct answers.)
a. common sense b. science c. philosophy d. theology - correct answer A
MULTIPLE CHOICE: Which of the following investigates WHY some fact is true?
(If there is more than one correct answer, then select all the correct answers.)
a. common sense b. science c. philosophy d. theology - correct answer B, C, D
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