PHIL 230 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3.1: Round Square
17 Jan 2017
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Intro: analysis is like a de nition. Though, keep a stimulative de nition different from an analyses of pre-existing concepts. Thought-experiments and counter-examples: to test analyses, counter-examples are applied. This is called a thought-experiment: imaginary test case". Thought-experiments can include near science ction applications: example. Professor smith is analyzing the pre-existing concept of death: claims that death is having the biological process of your body stopping . A body could in any imaginable creature anywhere" be frozen with all body function stopping and then revived: makes professor"s smith claim false, professor smith found a good test for death. Not a good analysis of death: nding the difference between. Questioning how we found out something about x. Nding a way to tell hydrogen and helium apart: use certain intuitions in offering a counter-example. Intuitions are not sacrosanct: sacrosanct de nition. Untouchable: example: modern physics is affecting intuitions about time, space and probability.
