PHI 1101 Midterm: PHI Midterm 1 Notes

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Christopher Mc Grath

Document Summary

For classes one and two (sep 08 and 13) introduction. What are the three steps of reasoning? (1) get a thesis. (2) get a reason. (3) assess the reason. A position we are entertaining on some matter. What attempts to provide support for a thesis. What provides a basis for believing that the thesis is true. Understand: coercion and reason both seek to compel agreement, but the aim of reason is to follow a cooperative method, while coercion follows an autocratic method. Understand: relativism and skepticism are two attitudes which, if imposed on the matter of interest, impair us from being able to reason about it. It is capable of being true or false. Understand: in logic we are interested in translating things we read or hear from natural language to a clearer and more precise form. We can call this sort of translation an analysis.