PHIL 1100 Final Exam || with 100% Errorless Answers.
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prisoners (Allegory of the Cave) correct answers non-philosophers
Philosophers spend their time giving unneeded definitions to ordinary terms. correct answers First misunderstanding people have about philosophy
Philosophy is all just opinion, and there are no facts being dealt with. correct a...
PHIL 1100 Final Exam || with 100% Errorless Answers.
prisoners (Allegory of the Cave) correct answers non-philosophers
Philosophers spend their time giving unneeded definitions to ordinary terms. correct answers
First misunderstanding people have about philosophy
Philosophy is all just opinion, and there are no facts being dealt with. correct answers Second
misunderstanding people have about philosophy
Science and/or religion can answer all of our questions, so philosophy no longer has a use.
correct answers Third misunderstanding people have about philosophy
Philosophy has no practical value. correct answers Fourth misunderstanding people have about
philosophy
Socrates's definition of an "examined life" correct answers the exact opposite of the unexamined
life; DOES ask the important questions
Why is the unexamined life not worth living? correct answers because then we would not really
be living as a person (it is almost our "moral" duty as a human to ask important questions)
Socratic Method correct answers involves an attempt to define some important concept (not in a
dictionary sort of way) but rather getting at its essence through a series of questions [given x, but
then is asked a series of questions in order to contradict and to show fault (what if scenarios)]
Allegory of the Cave correct answers good example of the examined and the unexamined life
cave (Allegory of the Cave) correct answers physical world
outside the cave (Allegory of the Cave) correct answers the mind
Why did the prisoner go back? (Allegory of the Cave) correct answers It is believed that it is the
philosophers' duty to go and enlighten others
Similarity among philosophy, religion, and science correct answers they attempt to offer
explanations for who we are and our place in the scheme of things
Characteristics of Philosophical Question correct answers 1. Cannot be answered empirically
2. They are questions that are being asked at the most fundamental level (the questions concern
beliefs that are central to our overall conceptual scheme, and that the questions are more general)
3. Are questions that require conceptual clarity before reason can proceed and try to answer them
conceptual analysis correct answers clarifying and defining important concepts
, metaphysics correct answers the subject concerned with the ultimate or fundamental nature of
reality
examples (2) of a metaphysics question correct answers 1. Does God exist?
2. Do we have free will?
epistemology correct answers the study of nature, source, and extent of human knowledge
example of an epistemology question correct answers What is knowledge?
axiology (value theory) correct answers concerned with the nature of value in morality and art
examples (3) of axiology questions correct answers 1. What makes your actions morally correct?
2. Should we live a moral life?
3. What is beauty?
logic correct answers the theory of correct reasoning, the study of arguments, and the study of
the methods used to distinguish the good ones from the bad
Logic, if used in correct reasoning, is a pattern of reasoning that will never take you from _____
to _______. correct answers truth...falisty (if P then Q)
rhetoric correct answers when philosophers talk about a good argument, they don't mean one that
CONVINCES you
deductive arguments correct answers the claim is that the conclusion follows from the premises
with certainty (not all are logically good)
inductive arguments correct answers the claim that only the conclusion is probable if the
premises are true; one is not guaranteeing the truth of the conclusion, but only claiming that it
follows from the evidence with some degree of probability
argument (can only be valid or invalid) correct answers a sequence of statements, together with a
claim, that one of the statements (the conclusion) follows in some sense from the others (the
premises)
statement correct answers a sentence that has a truth value (true or false)
premise correct answers can either be true or false
validity correct answers the most important concept to understand when first getting immersed in
logic; a RELATIONAL PROPERTY which describes a connection that exists between premises
and conclusions
IF the premises are true then the conclusion but be____as well. correct answers true
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