PHIL1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Slippery Slope, Soundness
Philosophy 1001 September 13th 2016
Reason -> Opposed to emotion 1) Epistemology
2) Metophysics
3) Logic
4) Ethics
-> Beliefs
Knowledge= Justified
True
Belief
Difference between agreeing and understanding
Necessary condition- bachelor being unmarried, being a man -> sufficient condition
Metophysics
-cogito ergo sun <- Decarte
I think therefore I am
Logic
-Informal: logical falicies
- Formal: symbolic P-> Q Ad Hominum: attack character or irrelevant trait opposed to content
Q-> P
Key Concepts:
-Validity: structure
-Soundness: premises + conclusion true
Slippery slope argument- mistaken causality
Give an inch vs what I take
Ethics
-Assumption
1) She is at risk -> breach confidentiality
2) she is not at risk -> do not breach confidentiality
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