a set of statements in which one or more of the statements attempts to provide reasons or evidence for the truth of another statement
What is an argument?
100
The claim that we do not have knowledge.
What is skepticism?
100
This philosopher wrote the Apology.
Who is Plato?
200
The area of philosophy concerned with fundamental questions about the nature of reality.
What is metaphysics?
200
The claim that there are two kinds of reality - physical and non-physical.
What is metaphysical dualism?
200
This theory claims that human beings can be explained completely and adequately in terms of their physical or material components.
What is physicalism?
200
The claim that there can be no universal, objective knowledge of reality.
What is relativism?
200
The ____________ is the written account of Socrates' trial.
What is the Apology?
300
The area of philosophy that deals with questions concerning knowledge.
What is epistemology?
300
The claim that the mind and the body are separate entities.
What is mind-body dualism?
300
In this type of argument the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises.
What is a deductive argument?
300
The claim that reason or the intellect is the primary source of our fundamental knowledge about reality.
What is rationalism?
300
Socrates used this method of teaching, which is supposed to help us to discover the truth or knowledge which is already within us.
What is the Socratic Method?
400
A philosophical argument consists of a conclusion and _____________ , which support the claim made in the conclusion.
What are premises?
400
The way a non-physical mind could interact with a physical body is still unclear. The name philosophers give to this "problem" is the __________________ .
What is the mind-body problem?
400
The goal of philosophy.
What is to have beliefs that are rationally justified?
400
The claim that all of our knowledge about the world comes from sense experience.
What is empiricism?
400
Socrates had a problem with the __________, traveling educators that, for a fee, taught people how to argue.
What are sophists?
500
In this type of argument, the premises make the conclusion highly probable.
What is an inductive argument?
500
The philosopher that is/was the biggest advocate of mind-body dualism. He based his mind-body dualism on arguments that claimed that the mind and the body have different properties and therefore must be two separate entities.
Who is Descartes?
500
This philosopher is known for his radical empiricism in which he argued that we cannot be certain of anything except for our own direct sense experiences.
Who is David Hume?
500
This kind of knowledge is justified independently of, or prior to, experience.
What is a priori knowledge?
500
The name of the work in which Plato is attempting to show that there are two levels of knowledge and possibly also two levels of reality.