PHIL 1000 : Study Guide PHIL 1000 Exam 1
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It is raining outside: non-empirical beliefs, there are no universal truths, some divine minds or god(s) exists, morality requires acting in accordance with universal rueles, criticisms of philosophy and rejoinders, 2. Philosophy does not involve empirical testing or verification: billydky"s argument against philosophy: billydky claims that when it comes to discovering any truths about reality. His main criticism is that philosophy is not scientific: 1. If a form of inquiry does not involve empirical testing or philosophy is mental masturbation, by which he means it"s useless verification, then it is mental masturbation. : 3. Thus, philosophy is mental masturbation. empirical matters are not mental masturbation. is that: 1. The claim philosophy is mental masturbation is not a: key assumption: only empirically verifiable claims can be objectively true. Thus, only forms of inquiry that deal with scientific, empirical claim. Yet, it is asserted in such a way as to presuppose its objectivity. assumption true: counter-argument to billydky, 2.
