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24 Cards in this Set
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5 Central WV Beliefs
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God, Reality, Knowledge, Human Reality, and Ethics
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Other terms for reality, knowledge, and human nature
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metaphysics, histomology, and anthropology
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worldview
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a conceptual scheme that contains our fundamental beliefs
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materialism
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reality is matter
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idealism
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the view that explains reality as compromising minds and ideas. reality is mind dependant
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empiricism
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all human knowledge is gained from sense experience
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rationalism
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human reason had the primary role in attaining knowledge
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philosophy
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the analysis of fundamental concepts of human inquiry / discussion of human thought and action / description of nature
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analytic philosophy
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application of philosophical analysis to particular problems, while tending to ignore the older practice of construction of philosophical system
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logic
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principles of correct reasoning
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argument
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a series of statements prove another statement
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conclusion
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a proposition that is claimed to follow from a set of premises
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inductive argument
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the premises claim to give some evidence for the conclusion (highly probable)
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deductive argument
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a deductive argument with two premises and conclusion (guaranteed)
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valid argument
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when the premises of an argument necessarily leads to the conclusion
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truth vs. validity
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argument are valid or invalid
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sound argument
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An argument that is valid and whose premises are true
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unsound argument
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an argument that is either invalid or has a false premises
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antecedent
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first in the sequence
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consequent
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second in the statement
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modus ponens
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valid: P->Q P 3DotsQ
invalid: P->Q Q 3DotsP |
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modus tollens
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valid: P->Q -Q 3Dots-P
invalid: P->Q -P 3Dots-Q |
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hypothetical syllogism
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P->Q Q->R 3DotsP->R
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disjunctive syllogism
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Valid: PvQ -Q 3DotsP
or PvQ -P 3DotsQ invalid: PvQ P 3Dots-Q or 3Dots-P |
