Language
Colloquial expressions where meaning is not literal
Coercion
Persuasion by force/threats
First step of the scientific method
Observation
Ethics is
The guiding principle for an individual or group
KQ
Knowledge question
This phrase is:
Visiting relatives can be boring
Ambiguous
Australia's political system
Representative democracy/constitutional monarchy
All scientific claims must be
Testable
Falsifiable
Morality is
a set of personal values
AOK
Area of knowledge
Language has features that are
universal/common
Three types of political knowledge
Authority, personal, empirical
Inductive reasoning
Drawing conclusions going from the specific to the general
The best action is the one that produces the least unhappiness
KF
Knowledge framework
Denotation theory
Meaning of words found in the world
Democracy requires
Free and equal access to knowledge
Correlation is not
Causation
Rationalists
Believe rationality and logic are most important for acquiring knowledge
RLS
Real life situation
Number of combinations of language
Infinite
Pluralism
Two or more states/parties/groups in power
Main problem with testing a hypothesis
Confirmation bias
Kantian ethics
Motive should be more important than the action
WOK
Way of knowing