PHIL-360 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Exploded-View Drawing, If And Only If
27 Oct 2016
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Chapter 1: the search for death itself feldman. Understanding an engine can be helped by an exploded view, showing how all the parts fit together. same can be done for concepts: we understand complex properties by revealing their parts and relations. This can proceed by trial and error, suggesting necessary and sufficient conditions, and testing them by trial by counterexample. One way to reveal our analysis once it is complete (or even at the various stages along the way) is to give a definition. Example for mother: x is a mother at t = df. Some concepts are time-relative, and it"s better to be safe in all definitions. ) Counterexamples: do not use unclear or controversial borderline cases. Must use a case about which there is relative consensus. The borderline cases are to be decided using our analysis, so we shouldn"t use them to set up the analysis.
