PHL100Y1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Body Plan, Causality, Intentionality
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Valid argument: premises are false but conclusion true; determined by the form. Sound argument: all premises are true and conclusion are true. But socrates refuses due to his 3 moral principles. However, if the person returns stumbling drunk, it wouldn"t be right to return the machete) Sophists: wise ones who taught tutorials to speak persuasively to make money. Socrates"s distinctiveness: what is x question: specifically inquired nature of (particular) moral virtue, socratic method: cross-examine interlocutors about their beliefs (on moral matters) and judge their soundness. Meant to be a cooperative venture but often ended without definitive resolution: socratic irony: socrates"s irritating tendency to praise his hearers while undermining them, or to disparage his own superior abilities while manifesting them. Technique where the questioner admits (falsely) to not knowing something as a way of tricking the other person into revealing his own lack of knowledge or a flaw in his logic.
