SSH 105 Study Guide - Tooth Fairy, Blind Experiment, Pareidolia

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Social Sciences and Humanities
• Course: SSH 105
• Professor: Mark Hunter

Document Summary

Justification: that the belief is based on enough of the right kind of evidence. Belief: an attitude about how things are, what the facts are. Nihilism: there are no truths in that subject: explain: there are no facts to be right or wrong about. No such thing as knowing and not because we are incapable of coming to know it, but because there is nothing there to be known at all: example: tooth fairy wears red on tuesdays, santa exists. Pragmatic: believing something because it is useful or because questioning it would be too difficult: explain: maintaining the beliefs simplifies some part of our practical life. It is easier to get along if we believe it than if we question it, and so we continue to believe it. Epistemic: believing something because we have evidence that it is true: explain, example: jones" belief that humans evolved from other species because there evidence.