132 Key terms Personhood: What it means to be a person Personal Identity: The characteristics‚ or equalities‚ that make one the same person over time. Survival: A persons continued existence over time. Mind-brain problem: The metaphysical debate over the nature of the connection between thoughts and the physical events that occur in the human brain. Identity theorists: A metaphysical theory that says that metal states are identical to brain states. Eliminative materialism: A theory that says
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LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND THE ABSURDITY OF METAPHYSICS PRESENTED BY: AKOMOLAFE OLUWATOBA M. MATRIC NO: 187189 COURSE CODE: PHI 702 COURSE TITLE: HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY LECTURER IN CHARGE: Dr. Afolayan LOGICAL POSITIVISM AND THE ABSURDITY OF METAPHYSICS NATURE OF METAPHYSICS In everyday discourse‚ “Metaphysics” is at times given a derogative connotation. A view is termed metaphysical
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Epistemology is the study of knowledge‚ “without knowledge‚ scientific enquiry is meaningless and we can’t analyze the world around us.”(Martin.10). Philosopher W.V. Quine believed in using naturalized epistemology in place of regular epistemology. Regular epistemology is the validation of a belief whereas naturalized epistemology also wants validation of knowledge‚ but chooses to focus more on gathering data from the science involved. Quine believes that in order to distinguish the connection between
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Categorical Propositions Categorical Proposition- a proposition that relates two classes or categories of entities together in some way. (sentence with truth value) -The classes in question are denoted respectively by the subject term and predicate term (S) (P) Quantifiers (S) (P) -All Ex. All Snow is White -None No Snow is Green -Some Some Snow is Yellow
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Logic Logic (from the Greek λογική‚ logike)[1] has two meanings: first‚ it describes the use of valid reasoning in some activity; second‚ it names the normative study of reasoning or a branch thereof.[2][3] In the latter sense‚ it features most prominently in the subjects of philosophy‚ mathematics‚ and computer science. Logic was studied in several ancient civilizations‚ including India‚[4] China‚[5] Persia and Greece. In the West‚ logic was established as a formal discipline by Aristotle‚ who
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Philosophy stemmed from the early Greek religions and myths‚ in search for answers to their questions about life. From early B.C. till today people still have questions about life and after-life‚ what is real and what is reality. Philosophy has dozens of subdivisions within it‚ one being metaphysics. Metaphysics is the study of the nature of reality‚ and within metaphysics there are three more divisions materialism‚ idealism‚ and hylemorphism. Each philosopher fits into one category more then others
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The main credited "father of logic" is widely considered to be the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle. Interested in every area of human knowledge about the world‚ Aristotle aimed to unify all of them in a coherent system of thought by developing a common methodology that would serve equally well as the procedure for learning about any discipline.(Hurley 5) For Aristotle‚ then‚ logic is the instrument (the "organon") by means of which we come to know anything. He proposed as formal rules for correct
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Plato & Metaphysics Metaphysics; a combination of the Greek word‚ meta‚ which translates to “after‚” “beyond‚” “along with‚” “among‚” and “behind‚” and the Latin term‚ physica‚ that simply means the science of matter and physical properties. Philosophers refer to this term to theorize about the different elements of the world in which we live and the world that truly exists. One of the most prominent philosophers is Plato‚ who set the foundation for many modern philosophers on their perspective
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ATI504 s293848 Assignment 1 What is ’Australian Indigenous epistemology’ according to Indigenous academics? Background information-Knowledge means idea or information and data related to something. Basically there are two types of knowledge. They are explicit and implicit knowledge. Explicit knowledge is also known as propositional knowledge. It refers to knowledge about something. Example‚ knowledge about how to swim. Tacit knowledge is also called as objectified knowledge. Whereas‚ there is
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