PHIL-P 100 Lecture 1: Philisophy - Week 1
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The study of the nature of being, becoming, existence. Theory of knowledge, what distinguishes between justified belief and opinion. Deductive - it is either valid or invalid, must be an absolute. It does not matter if the given situation is true, if the premises point to something then that is the valid answer regardless of if in reality this is true or not. Premises don"t have to be true for validity. All men are rich, socrates is a man, socrates is rich, although this isn"t true in actuality, this is true because the premises deem so. Unsound, means it is false information so the socrates argument, although valid, is unsound. In order to be a good argument, in addition to being valid and sound (the conclusion is based on the premises, and the premises is true.
