PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Formal System

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

Document Summary

Right attitude is 50% of being a critical thinker, effectively learning to be critical. We are evaluating claims can be a ocean of information, but who knows if all of these claims are true. Eco-chamber (hearing exatly what they want to believe) Be ready to be wrong and not to get too upset to be wrong. My best answer for now because to be totally sure is a sense of dogmatism. Right attitude to start out and have a humility about your beliefs. Opposite of critical thinking is dogmatism (anti- thinking) It is much harder to prove something right than prove something wrong, always easier to criticize than to prove, To present a claim, and present evidence with that claim. For instance, most true or false claims must be empirical questions (math is not empirical) Real truth is something we never feel with our senses, it is something we understand.