PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Critical Thinking, Law Of Excluded Middle, Principle Of Bivalence

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Laura Byrne

Document Summary

Phi 1101 f: concepts (technical definitions, lots of matching, a few fill in the blanks or true or false) concepts of critical thinking, application (modeled on the practice questions in bbl) short answers, republic. *practice questions on bbl are the same type we will have on tests* Introduction to philosophy: moral (ethics) and political philosophy. S objective knowledge possible, or is everything relative to individual persons, cultures or time periods: metaphysics. What are the correct forms of reasoning: critical thinking. The application of logic to arguments in ordinary language (applied logic) Alternatives to reasoned arguments emotion, artistic imagination, tradition, etc. The basic concepts of critical thinking: statements (true or false) Statement: a sentence used to make a claim. Statements are capable of being either true or false. Opposite from a command, question or expression (which cannot be true or false)