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PHIL 2020 Exam 1 LSU Blakley Questions With Complete Solutions
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PHIL 2020 Exam 1 LSU Blakley Questions With CompleteSolutions
Truthiness Correct Answers the quality of seeming or being
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felt to be true, even if not necessarily true.
Socrates on the Law of Non-Contradiction Correct Answers
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Socrates: "The same thing clearly cannot act or be acted upon
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in the same part or in relation to the same thing at the same time,
in contrary ways" (Republic, 436b).
Aristole on the Law of Non-Contradiction Correct Answers -
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"It is impossible that the same thing belong and not belong to
the same thing at the same time and in the same respect."
- "No one can believe that the same thing can (at the same time)
be and not be."
- "The most certain of all basic principles is that contradictory
propositions are not true simultaneously."
- "[I]t is not possible to say truly at the same time that the same
thing is and is not a man."
Traditional Square of Opposition Correct Answers helps
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illustrate the logical relationship between categorical statements
and the law of non-contradiction
Implicit Contradiction Correct Answers Asserting a claim such
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that the addition of other additional claims logically entailed or
implied by the original claim produces an explicit contradiction
, Explicit Contradiction Correct Answers the assertion of a
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proposition and its exact opposite at the same time and in the
same respect, i.e. "God exists" and "God does not exist"
Self-Defeating or Self-Contradictory
Claims/Statements/Theories Correct Answers Those claims or
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theories that ultimately prove themselves to be false because
their truth would require the truth of a contradiction; they are
self- contradictory or self-referentially incoherent.
Criticism of Philosophy Correct Answers No Empirical
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Verification = No Objective or Universal Truth
That it has to be subjective and therefore can't really be studied
Textbook definition of Philosophy Correct Answers The
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intellectual activity of attempting to discern and remove
contradictions among non- empirical, reasoned beliefs that have
universal importance, with the resulting benefit of achieving a
greater understanding of the world and our place within it
The Philosophy is Subjective Theory (PST) or Philosophical
Non-Objectivism: Correct Answers Says: No philosophical
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statement is objectively true
sophism Correct Answers a fallacious argument, especially one
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used deliberately to deceive; given a negative connotation by
Plato and Aristotle
to cleverly manipulate another into your line of thinking
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