PHIL 105 Lecture : Phil001 note1.doc
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5 types of respondent: the credulous person. * gives up his own opinions when he hears an argument for new ones: the person of contradiction. * disagrees with everything; ready to oppose everything anyone else says: the dogmatist. * he just sticks to his own belief no matter what: the skeptic. * believes nothing, and won"t assent to anything: the relativist. Impediments(difficulty) to good reasoning: lack of adequate vocabulary, misunderstanding. A declarative sentence is true it corresponds to the facts e. g. the sun moves around the earth" as written by someone in 500 bc. Sentence tokens vs sentence types e. g. we all are using the same textbook. 1 token-i lend you my copy of the textbook. A proposition is the thought or idea expressed by a sentence token. The only cases where a sentence can express more than one proposition are: (1)