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PHIL150 MIDTERM EXAM WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS |LATEST UPDATE

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PHIL150 MIDTERM EXAM WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS |LATEST UPDATE Argument - collection of sentences that attempt to establish that some conclusion is true two central features of an argument - 1. trying to convince us of something (conclusion) 2. supplies evidence in support of the thing...

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CORRECT ANSWERS |LATEST UPDATE

Argument - ✔✔collection of sentences that attempt to establish that some

conclusion is true

two central features of an argument - ✔✔1. trying to convince us of

something

(conclusion)

2. supplies evidence in support of the thing being proved (premise)

Validity - ✔✔an argument is valid when, IF all of its premises were true,

then the conclusion would also HAVE to be true

Sound Argument - ✔✔valid

true premises

Definitions - ✔✔Necessary Conditions: every member has these features

Sufficient Conditions: everything with these features is a member

3 definitions of technology - ✔✔1. Tech as hardware

- physical object

, not naturally occuring

- fulfills intended function

2. Tech as software

- refers to kind of activity

3. Tech as applied science

- tech emerges out of science (problem: accidental discoveries)

3 Theories of Terms - ✔✔1. real definition: real, objective categories, we

didnt just make it up

2. stipulitive definition: aren't discovering but creating

3. reportative definition: description of use

Method of Doubt - ✔✔a way of searching for certainty by systematically

though tentatively doubting everything

Skepticism - ✔✔believing nothing at all, suspending judgement, forming

no beliefs about the world whatsoever

the one certain thing all knowledge can be hoisted upon, according to

Descartes - ✔✔I think, Therefore I am (I exist)

Philosophy of knowledge - ✔✔epistimology

Philosophy of the natural world - ✔✔metaphysics

philosophy of morals - ✔✔ethics

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