MODR 1730 Study Guide - Facing Reality, Anthropocentrism, Philosophical Skepticism
19 Dec 2014
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Thinks about the reasons we give ourselves, considers the validity of the interpretation: interpretation giving reasons to the experience, experience any bodily action that we remember. We"re always interpreting what we"re experiencing: psychological (how we think) philosophical (what we think, egocentrism, conformism, ethnocentrism. Self-interested (egocentric) thinking and group think (conformism) are almost never separate from one another. Good persuader may appeal to emotions, prejudices, fears, and sometimes may employ deliberate falsehoods. Have good logical structure if premises are true, the conclusion must also be true. If premises are true, then its conclusion is probably true. Strength of inductive argument is a matter of degree: cogency inductively strong argument with true premises. Truth preserving, can be compared to a computer program that always gives a correct answer if you input correct data. An argument is either valid or invalid, no degrees of validity: invalidity if a deductive argument fails to provide conclusive support for its conclusion.
