PHIL 100W Lecture Notes - Broccoli, Value Theory

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 100W
• Professor: Dc Mc

Document Summary

The study of nature of knowledge and beliefs. Study of inference patterns (and a tool for doing things in the rest of philosophy) Set of propositions, one of which is supported to be supported by the others. The one that is supposed to be supported is the conclusion. The one that is supposed to be supporting is the premises. Ex: people should eat broccoli regularly because it contains a lot of folic acid. What is expressed by a declarative sentence? (states that something is the case, has a truth-value, true or false. )