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Moody Spokane Intro to Philosophy Bryan O'Neal
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 2
01/17/2013

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True or False: All cogent arguments are inductive.
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True
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True or False: Some weak arguments are cogent? 
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False
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True or False: No cogent arguments are weak?
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True
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True or False: All strong arguments are cogent? 
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False
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Descartes is the "father" of _______ and ________

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Modernism

Rationalism 

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Modernism:
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Starts with epistemology rather than metaphysics
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Rationalism: 
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Epistemological attitude saying knowledge is based exclusiveley in reason
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What move marks the beginning of modernism?
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Modernism places epistemology as the starting point insted of metaphysics
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What is Descartes most famous phrase (in Latin or English)?

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"Cogito"

"I think, therefore I am"

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True of False: Descartes is a skeptic?
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False
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Why does Descartes initially doubt the legitimacy of his beliefs about math and physics? 
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"Erl Demon"

He believed that he was lied to, that demons were finding him lies.

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Why does Descartes initially doubt the evidence of his senses? 
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Doesn't know if they can be trusted. Wonders how we perceive things when sleeping. 
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Locke was know as the father of ________?

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Empiricism
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What is Lockes' most famous phrase (in Latin or English)?

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"Tabula Rasa"

"We are born as blank slates"

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Epiricism:
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We know things from experience or sensations
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According to Leibniz, which world is this?
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"Best Possible World"
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Spinoza believes everything is _______.

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One
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What does Descartes forget/neglect to doubt?
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Common Humanity, Rational, Human Instinct, Common Sense
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According to Berkeley, what we call a "material object" is really ____________.

 

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A bundle of ideas
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Primary Quality: 
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Really is "Substance"
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Secondary Quality:
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"Appears to be"
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Berkeley, "Philonus":
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Loves mind
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Locke, "Hylous": 
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Loves matter
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Who said, "To exist is to be perceived"?
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Berkeley
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Hume's reasoning pattern seems to be a ______ reasoning pattern.
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Circular
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Hume is trying to move away from ______ support for faith.
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Scientific
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Nature "The Eye" is  a _____,  ______.

Therefore "The eye" (nature), is designed. 

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Complex

Function

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Fallacies:
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Mistakes in reasoning
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"Formal Fallacies":
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errors in structure of so called deductive arguments
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"Informal Fallacies":
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Might deal with methods, assumptions
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Hasty Generalization: 
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To little or inapropriate data
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False Cause:
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Reversing cause and effect, wrong cause - does not lead to effect. 
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Weak Analogy:
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Have something in common, but it's irrelevant. 
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False Dichotomy: 
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Does not take other choices into account
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Abusive Argument:
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Attacking the arguer
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Slippery Slope:
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Fail to recognize progression and where it should reasonably stop. 
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Red Herring: 
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Distracted, changing subject of argument
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Straw Man:
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Avoid the argument... Create your own and destroy it.
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Appeal to the people:
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mob mentality, go with the crowd
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Kant tries to do two things.

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2.

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1. Synthesize rationalism and empiricism

2. Respond to Hume's skepticism about cause and effect

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Kant says we are all wearing goggles, assumes we are all wearing _______________.
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the same goggles
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Nihilism: 
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There is no God. No meaning. 
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Exhistentalism:
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Choose how you want to live. YOLO
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Pragmatism:
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Deciding what works
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