PHI 1101 Lecture Notes - Ontological Argument, Principle Of Bivalence, Episteme

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Laura Byrne

Document Summary

Metaphysics: does god exist, is the will free. Critical thinking: the application of logic to arguments in ordinary language. The basic concepts of critical thinking and their logical. E. g. an argument is not true or false. Statements: the most basic concept of critical thinking, sentence used to make a claim, capable of being either true or false, logic calls them assertions or propositions. Two laws of logic: the law of non-contradiction, the law of the excluded middle (or the law of. Socrates is not a man (~p or -p) proposition p negation not-p. Sets: propositions can be combined in groups or sets, e. g. Socrates is an olympian god: both are false but are consistent. When answering a question asking if a set is consistent or inconsistent, say: This is (in)consistent because it is (not) possible for all of the propositions in it to be true at the same time because they.