PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sept

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sascha Maicher

Document Summary

Reference: the meaning that the term references to. I don"t know how to define art, but that"s not art. You couldn"t point at it and say this means this. it wouldn"t make any sense. You could, however, point at a chair and say that is a chair. Replace a word that cannot be understood with a more common and simple word in order to explain/ define the word. Analytic definition: what features must it possess to be that thing". e. g. : electric guitar: (think hierarchal (biology) way of organizing adjectives/descriptions. ) Finding the appropriate groups to describe the guitar is very difficult. Kingdom: guitar p. 90 exercise 3. 9: group, group, group, individual, group, individual, could be both. So, the child doesn"t look like the father, must be the mom. We don"t know and we cannot know, so we must judge the credibility of all claims.