Chapters 1-3
The art of right thinking
What is logic?
Students of Aristotle
What are peripatetics?
Confirms or denies something about the subject
What is a predicate?
Negating the predicate.
What is obversion?
The written expression of the mental act of inference
What is a syllogism?
What is philosophy?
The difference between art and science
The four types of propositions.
What are A, E , I , O?
The square of opposition is based on his work.
Who is Aristotle?
An argument that is logical and follows the rules of syllogisms.
What is valid?
Logic can be compared to this structure
What is a cathedral?
The nature of knowledge
What is epistemology?
The study of how we know what we know
What is epistemology?
The word below the square of opposition in the middle.
What is subcontrariety?
Step 3 of constructing a syllogism.
What is construct a major and minor premise?
These make up the 7 liberal arts
What are the trivium and quadrivium?
Teaches that truth and beauty exist independently of the human experience.
What is Platonism?
Subjecting every belief to rigorous testing.
What is methodological skepticism?
Denying that humans know what they think they know.
What is skepticism?
Thought experiment by Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
What is state of nature?
This is when someone believes that the universal exists in the particular so that the universal can influence actions.
What is modified realism?
A question of value.
What is truth?
The 3 founders of the Pragmatist school.
Who are Peirce, James, Dewey?
The relationships between categorical propositions are contradictions, contrariety, subcontrariety and this.
What is subalternation?
Philosophical study of Government.
What is political theory?