In this type of argument, the truth of the premises guarantee the truth of the conclusion.
What is a deductive argument?
100
This sense of the word "is" is contained in the sentence "Socrates is six-feet tall."
What is the "is" of accidental predication?
100
This is the problem of understanding how two essentially different substances can interact.
What is mind-body problem?
100
This form of skepticism denies the very possibility of knowledge.
What is absolute skepticism?
100
This view says that at least some things are known apart from sense experience.
What is rationalism?
200
Which informal fallacy does the following argument commit?
1. Either God exists or the moon is made out of green cheese.
2. The moon is not made out of green cheese.
3. Therefore, God exists.
What is "begging the question"?
200
For Plato, the world of individual chairs and tables is also known as what?
What is world of Becoming?
200
This is the view that equates mental states with brain states.
What is the Identity Thesis?
200
These type of claims are true by definition.
What are analytic claims?
200
For Descartes, this method helps one to "build" knowledge from intuition.
What is deduction?
300
The signal words "thus," "therefore," and "accordingly" signify what?
What is the conclusion?
300
This cause refers to the "purpose" or "goal" in Aristotle's metaphysics.
What is the final cause?
300
According to this view, "freedom" is "acting in accord with one's desires."
What is soft determinism? (or compatibilism)
300
"Water freezes at 32 degrees Fahrenheit" is this type of claim.
What is a synthetic claim?
300
This refers to Plato's doctrine that we are born with knowledge of the Forms.
What are innate ideas?
400
According to lecture, this refers to "an ordered set of beliefs that one has regarding life's most important questions."
What is worldview?
400
This criticism of Plato's theory of the Forms attacks the plausibility regarding how the world of Being could interact with the world of Becoming.
What is "the problem of chorismos"?
400
This aspect of morality is particularly difficult for hard determinists to account for.
What is moral responsibility?
400
This form of skepticism enables one to acquire knowledge.
What is "common sense" skepticism? (heuristic skepticism)
400
For Hume, this is the type of knowledge that arises out of one's interaction with the external world.
What are matters of fact?
500
Philosophy of religion, philosophy of biology, and philosophy of language are examples of this sense of the word "philosophy."
What is philosophy as a second-order discipline?
500
This means "to stand under" as in "the thing that stands under the properties."
What is substance?
500
This view maintains that a person is fully present from one moment to the next.
What is the absolute view?
500
This type of knowledge has been referred to as Kant's "Copernican revolution."
What is synthetic a priori knowledge?
500
This refers to the empiricist problem whereby one is ultimately trapped behind one's sense experiences.