PSYB57H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Avocado
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If someone send us to pet shop to buy dog sure to succeed, and other facts of dogs. How do know this knowledge: something w/ dictionary definition: a dog is a creature that 1) is mammalian, 2) has four legs, 3) barks, d) wags its tail . If we were asked what dogs, cats and horses have in common, we could scan our definition of each one looking for common elements. Difficulty w/ proposal was w/ ludwig wittgenstein, who noted that philosophers have been trying to define terms like virtue and knowledge however, these terms were still accepts without accepted full definitions. It a) is an activity most often practiced by children, b) engaged for fun, c) has certain rules, d) involves multiple people, e) is somewhat competitive, g) played during periods of leisure. All these are plausible attributes, so we define game this way.
