PHIL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Tertullian, Determinism, Bake Sale
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Philosophy: questions answered through human experiences and senses. Religion: also uses reason and human experience + some supernatural revelation (god said/did/was) What we can know prior to experience (sense experience) Ex: no two snowflakes are the same . Ex: the shortest distance between 2 points is a straight line. Humans are the only animals with a concept of mortality. What can be known after experience; what reason alone cannot know in advance. Had to go outside and experience the sunniness. Ex: this lecture is going to be boring . Had to sit in lecture to know it"s boring. Every system must be incomplete or inconsistent (but not both) Don"t know why you believe in something. Set of sentences that express belief or knowledge and the rules used to generate more sentences within that system. Rules that you have tell you what you can say. Christian saying zeus is the greatest god .
