PHIL150 MIDTERM EXAM WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS |LATEST UPDATE
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PHIL 150
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PHIL 150
PHIL150 MIDTERM EXAM WITH 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS |LATEST UPDATE
Argument - collection of sentences that attempt to establish that some
conclusion is true
two central features of an argument - 1. trying to convince us of
something
(conclusion)
2. supplies evidence in support of the thing...
Argument - ✔✔collection of sentences that attempt to establish that some
conclusion is true
two central features of an argument - ✔✔1. trying to convince us of
something
(conclusion)
2. supplies evidence in support of the thing being proved (premise)
Validity - ✔✔an argument is valid when, IF all of its premises were true,
then the conclusion would also HAVE to be true
Sound Argument - ✔✔valid
true premises
Definitions - ✔✔Necessary Conditions: every member has these features
Sufficient Conditions: everything with these features is a member
3 definitions of technology - ✔✔1. Tech as hardware
- physical object
, not naturally occuring
- fulfills intended function
2. Tech as software
- refers to kind of activity
3. Tech as applied science
- tech emerges out of science (problem: accidental discoveries)
3 Theories of Terms - ✔✔1. real definition: real, objective categories, we
didnt just make it up
2. stipulitive definition: aren't discovering but creating
3. reportative definition: description of use
Method of Doubt - ✔✔a way of searching for certainty by systematically
though tentatively doubting everything
Skepticism - ✔✔believing nothing at all, suspending judgement, forming
no beliefs about the world whatsoever
the one certain thing all knowledge can be hoisted upon, according to
Descartes - ✔✔I think, Therefore I am (I exist)
Philosophy of knowledge - ✔✔epistimology
Philosophy of the natural world - ✔✔metaphysics
philosophy of morals - ✔✔ethics
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