PHIL 1175 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Philosopher King, Noble Lie, Sophist
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What is the nature of knowledge/scope of knowledge. S knows that p not like know how to do something, they know something is the case. Necessary conditions for stuff to be true (individually necessary, jointly sufficient) Logic: the study of good reasoning / valid inference. Philosophical ethics: the study between good and bad. Belief - you have to believe you are right. A priori (using reason to figure stuff out without research) Descriptive: just describing the values and possibly find out why. The right action for the majority of society. Intention to do your duties expected of you. The first thought is taken to be evidence/reason/justification for the second. *not all thought transition that are not inferences. Generally: series of claims (claims/statements/proposition all the same thing) A series of claims (some of which called the premises) give us reason/evidence/justification is support of another claim called the conclusion.
