PHIL 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Political Philosophy
1 Jan 2016
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A guide to living the good life. Building consistent systems of thought to explain the world and our experiences. And analyzing critiquing other systems of thought. Philosophy is an activity (always changing views, minds, experiences. Made up of claim and supported by evidence. Claim is the conclusion of an argument (my position is my intention is : premises. Deductive - intended to provide a guarantee the truth of conclusion; rational or analytic follows premises or not; truth of conclusions is within the truth of the premises. Inductive - intended to increase probability of its conclusion (strongly implied) based on data rather than true or not: success is based on degree. Not an argument: fact (i failed an exam, mere assertion (that was a bad exam, conditional (if i studied, i would have passed) Argument: if you study, you will pass the exam indicator words. Implicit premises or conclusions not every argument is a good argument.
