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Philosophy test 1
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Philosophy
Undergraduate 1
03/01/2009

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ontology
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theory of reality
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axiology
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theory of value (morals, aesthetics)
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everything is water, first to accurately predict eclipse of sun
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Thales
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The unlimited/indeterminate
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Anaximander
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air rarified and air condensed
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Anaximenes
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simple explanations, observation, natural phenomena, monism
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common traits of early Milesion philosophers
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construction, deconstruction, reconstruction
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the socratic method
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universe is a song
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Pythagorus' view of universe
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math is universal language
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Pythagorus view of math
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cosmos (order) and chaos, you "order" your soul with the universe in the harmony of the spheres
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Pythagorus' theory of your soul and life
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everything is always changing
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Heraclitus
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motion is an illusion, everything "being"
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Parmenides
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can never reach destination b/c of the halves crap
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Zeno's Paradox
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Eristic
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competition between opponents to find truth, playing Devil's Advocate
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dialectic
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finding truth by working together
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rhetoric, success
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Sophists were professors of?
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Protagorus
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man is measure of all things--relativism
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Gorgias
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truth doesn't exist, and if you could find it, how would you communicate it? better to get fat and rich...
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Phaedo
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dialogue by Plato about death of Socrates
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rationalism and empiricism
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two roads in philosophy
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reason,
Plato and Descarte's roads through Philosophy
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rationalism
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empiricism
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experience
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• Maieutic-
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a guide/leader
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• Aporia-
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perplexity
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• Aporetic-
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ends inconclusively
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• Elenchus-
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to refute
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• Eristic
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- competition of ideas; to win
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• Rhetoric
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- to persuade
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• Anamnesis
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- to recollect (truth)
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Plato's JTB
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justified true belief
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Justified True Belief
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P believes X
X is true
P can give Logos (justification) for truth of X
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study simile of lines
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study simile of lines
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scholasticism
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physical proximity to God has to do with how high up or far down you are
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Cogito, God, math, World
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Descartes' steps to truth
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Rationalistic Epistemology
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theory of knowledge based on reason
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• Knowledge is an act of making the observable world intelligible by showing how it is related to an eternal order of intelligible truths
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Plato's conclusion
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father of analytic geometry and modern philosophy
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Rene Descartes is father of:
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scholasticism, skepticism, the occult
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Cartesian Enemies
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