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The famous statement “I think, therefore I am” is commonly known by this Latin phrase.
Cogito Ergo Sum
This idea is known by the abbreviation JTB
What is Justified True Belief?
This philosopher claimed that “the unexamined life is not worth living.”
Who is Socrates?
This journalist wrote about the trial of Adolf Eichmann.
Who is Hannah Arendt?
In a memorable moment this student famously wore her blazer on her head to hide unstoppable giggling.
Who is Annabel Sargeant?
Descartes imagines this powerful deceiver who manipulates all his experiences and beliefs.
What is the Evil Demon?
A belief that happens to be true but is reached through substantial chance involves this kind of luck.
What is epistemic luck?
This student of Socrates wrote philosophical dialogues and developed the Theory of Forms.
Who is Plato?
Eichmann was found guilty of war crimes committed during this tragic event.
What is the holocaust?
Who is Nash Ryan?
A belief must have this property to count as knowledge rather than merely being something a person thinks.
What is truth?
Someone looks at a stopped clock at exactly the correct time and forms a justified true belief: this is an example of this kind of problem.
What is a Gettier Case?
This philosopher argued that moral virtue is developed through habit and lies between excess and deficiency.
Who is Aristotle?
Arendt's writings coined the famous phrase 'the THIS of evil'.
What is banality?
Who is Dr Jordan Sibberas?
This philosopher lectures us about the Value of Philosophy.
Who is Bertrand Russell?
Gettier cases challenge the claim that justified true belief is this for knowledge.
What is sufficient?
Plato's name is often considered a reference to his wrestling style, described as this word for wide.
What is 'broad'?
Hannah Arendt concluded that Eichmann, despite doing heinous acts, was not born this.
What is a monster?
On VCE Philosophy Inquiry Day, this student won the amazing prize of a University of Melbourne water bottle.
Who is Ellie Dawson?
What is an annotated copy of a reading?
This is Gettier's first name.
What is Edmund?
This philosopher argued that pleasure is the highest good, but understood pleasure primarily as freedom from bodily pain and mental disturbance.
Who is Epicurus?
Adolf Eichmann was arrested in this Latin American country.
What is Argentina?
This student must be cold-blooded as she admitted to routinely setting the temperature to 32 degrees.
Who is Charlotte Kirby?