PHILOS 1B03 Lecture Notes - Beverley Mclachlin, Inductive Reasoning, Justin Trudeau
9 Apr 2014
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Philosophy: addresses foundational questions, ones whose answers inform our basic understanding of: Most other areas of human inquiry, and. Fundamental aspects of the world, ourselves, and our relation to the world. Tends towards the abstract - doesn"t ask for the time; asks. Big but basic questions - general questions about how things work, foundations that people have accepted as the normal without really thinking about them, general ideas about the world and how humans relate to the world. Concepts of things. (these will usually be abstract concepts. Philosophers analyse these concepts, we call this conceptual. Metaphysics seeks to determine what basic sorts of things are real - the fundamental categories of reality or existence. Does the world contain mental, physical and abstract things (like numbers?) Epistemology deals with the nature and scope of knowledge. Lots of philosophers will take both sides.
