PHIL 101 Lecture Notes - Modus Ponens, Deductive Reasoning, Likelihood Principle
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Philosophy is a systematic examination of the rational grounds for our beliefs. Knowledge vs. mere belief: knowledge requires truth and evidence, belief is either true or false. Theory of truth: a proposition is true if and only if the world is as the proposition describes it as being. Fallacy of equivocation: using same word or phrase in 2 or more distinct ways. Ray charles is blind, love is blind, god is love. Two ways an argument can go wrong: it may have false premises, reasoning is poor. More than one sentence can express the same proposition. One sentence can express more than one premise. A declarative sentence is a string of grammatical words. Two important consequences of the correspondence theory of truth: a proposition is either true or false and it is not necessary that anyone know its truth or falsehood.
