PHIL 1301 Lecture 2: PHIL 1301 A P - Sept 10 2013
12 Apr 2016
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Philosophy is concerned at the margins of science. First philosopher for rationalism (label that has been put on by older philosophers) Know things from experience, use geometry with purely logic, don"t need to see it. Pertains to philosophy, and how we are going to succeed. Unscientific has its own method that is rigorous. Convince everyone that their claims about the world are true. Formal sense set of claims containing at least one inference. Either report to be true or false- that"s the idea. It is a logical relation between the two arguments. Claims can be broken up into two: premises and conclusions. Premises are supposed to provide logical support/ backup to support the claims. *a line represents inference or therefore: (if ralphie is a cat. ) (ralphie is an animal. , ralphie is a cat, ralphie is an animal, p q, p, q.
