ENGL 1121 Lecture Notes - Correspondence Theory Of Truth, Logical Truth, Analytic Philosophy
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Rational investigation of being, knowledge and right conduct. Inquiry into meaning of concepts and logical coherence of arguements analytic/contingent truth: Analytic truth is necessarily true because if not it involves a contradiction. Contingent truth can be possibly true or false autonomy: Education that involves moulding or deliberately forming any aspect of the child"s personality. The child is an end in himself not a means to someone else"s end. A child should be treated as a child. Necessary is when something is absolutely need to achieve something else. Contingent is when something usually, not always results from something else. To create a concept questions need to be answered that arise from definition. Something can"t be true and untrue at the same time creativity: What a person creates should be his own. To be creative what one creates should be original and breaks new ground( means what is produced should be distinctive) Is the quality of thinking not individual thinking.
