PHIL102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Soundness, Unit, Circle Of A Sphere
13 Apr 2017
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What there is, what is real, ultimate structure of reality. Epistemological questions- what we know, what distinguishes knowledge from mere opinion and how knowledge is acquired. Ask what the evidence is being used to supportive the claim. Clarify what the claim is: claims can be interpreted in more than one way, identify ambiguities. Spot weaknesses in an argument: recognize hidden assumptions. Argument: heated disagreement, element of confrontation, bickering match, mathematical, attempts to support a position- phil*, what we focus on a. i. Unit of discourse in which some statements are used to support another statement a. ii. Premise- base an argument, theory, or undertaking on. Conclusion- an argument will have exactly one conclusion, thing the person is trying to establish, target of argument. Statement- proposition, frame, something that you are saying is the case: premises and conclusions are statements, if the statement matches the way things actually are= true, assertion about how things are. Inference- rule governed step: from premises to conclusion.
