[PHILOS 1B03] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (41 pages long!)
28 Nov 2016
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Philosophy characterized by: breadth of subject matter, fundamental, abstract questions, concepts, methods: reasons, arguments, analysis. Question b: what is time: empirical, observations; testimony; reports, look, see, hear, feel, taste, surveys, experiments (sciences, probabilities, conceptual, analysis of concept of time itself, think & reason, instead of observe, necessary truths. Question 2 conceptual: julie knows that the jays will win the world series. If julie knows that the jays will win the world series, then it"s true that the jays will win the world series conceptual. S knows that p only if: s believes p, s is justi ed in believing p, p is true. So, if s really does know that p, then necessarily p must be true! Concept of democracy: rule by the people , majority rule, voting. Puzzling cases: popular vote less than 50, candidates all selected by gov"t russia, china, zimbabwe. Tyranny of the majority john stuart mill; human rights violations; systematic minority discrimination.
