PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Empiricism, Cognitive Bias, Mengla County

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sascha Maicher

Document Summary

Purpose of thinking critically: to come to the correct conclusion and to make decisions. Achieve this by evaluating our thinking by the standards of rationality. To come to a conclusion = having a belief (ex. If you conclude the battery is dead, you believe the battery is dead) Belief = propositional meaning it can be expressed in a declarative sentence (true/false sentence) Belief= same as judgment/opinion and when expressed in a declarative sentence, results in a claim which= assertion/statement. Are statements that say something about reality / present proposition as they can be true or false) Objective claim: whether something is true/false it is independent of whether people think it is true/false (ex. There is life on mars = b/c whether or not life exist does not depend on whether people think it does) Subjective claim: whether something is true/false it is not independent of whether people think it is true/false (ex.