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What is Philosophy?
Rational Argumentation
Fallacies
Metaphysics
Terms
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Literally means "The love of Wisdom"
What is Philosophy?
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Philosophers analyze and construct _______ using philosophical reasoning. Syllogism: Usually contain 2 premises and a conclusion.
What is an Argument?
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When you attack the person, not their argument...
What is Ad Hominem?
100
Which is an avenue for study in metaphysics: a. what the universe is made out of b. what god has commanded for us c. our definitions of beauty d. how we gain knowledge
What is a. what the universe is mad out of?
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The study of reality; what is real...
What is Metaphysics?
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Name the "Big Three" in Philosophy in the order of oldest to youngest.

Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?

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When the form of the argument is correct...
What is Valid, Validity?
200
Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack...
What is The Straw-man Fallacy?
200
Reality is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed or otherwise immaterial...
What is Idealism?
200
The metaphysical belief in two substances to the universe; ex. mind and body...
What is Dualism?
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The study of reasoning through sets of principles; ordered reasoning...
What is Logic?
300
When both the form is correct AND there is real-world truth value, we call it a _______ argument.
What is sound?
300
In a _______ argument, a course of action is rejected because, with little or no evidence, one insists that it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends.
What is Slippery Slope?
300
According to Aristotle's 4 causes: The __________ cause determines what the substance of the object is.
What is Material Cause?
300
FOR DESCARTES, IT IS THE MENTAL SUBSTANCE; NON-PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF THE UNIVERSE; EX. THE MIND, SOUL ETC...
What is Res Cogitan?
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The study of how we ought to live; Asks, "What is right, what is wrong?
What is Ethics?
400
A _______ occurs when there is faulty reasoning in an argument which makes it invalid or unsound; It fails as an argument.
What is Fallacy?
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Saying that a compromise or middle point between two extremes is the truth.
What is the Middle Ground fallacy?
400
Aristotelian Hylomorphism is a combination of which two ideas?
What is Form and Substance (or matter)?
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What are the Cartesian arguments that we studied so far?

What are The Dream argument, the Deceiving God argument and the Brain-in-a-vat argument.

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Plato's story that talks about ascending our ignorance; It has metaphors of duality and explains what the search for wisdom is...
What is The Allegory of The Cave?
500

What type of argument has two premises and one conclusion - what is that called?

What is a Syllogism?

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Bob argued with his friends that The Spurs have at least 10 Championship titles in the NBA. Chuck (who is an avid and informed Spurs fan) said they have 5. Bill, the peacemaker said, "let's just say they have 7 and move on..." Bill issued an example of what type of fallacy?
What is the Middle-ground fallacy?
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___________ believed there was a world of forms that was considered ultimate reality. _____________ believed that form was the boundary to an objects substance.
Who are Plato and Aristotle?
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FOR PLATO IT WAS THE TRANSCENDENT, IDEAL REPRESENTATION OF AN OBJECT IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD; FOR ARISTOTLE IT WAS THE BOUNDARY TO AN OBJECT'S SUBSTANCE.
What is Form?