ADM 1370 Study Guide - Final Guide: A Priori And A Posteriori, Liberal Arts Education, Preposition And Postposition
10 Apr 2018
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Logic: assessing the information (t/f, making connections. Rhetoric: giving information, modes of persuasion logos (reason): using facts, ethos: using your character, pathos: using the audience emotion. Support: basis for thinking a claim is true. Social relativism: all social/cultural groups beliefs are respectively true. Why reason: find the truth, find falsity, persuade people. Identify the claim: what could be true, distinguish claims about yourself vs. about the world. Reasoning and critical thinking: master note: more evidence required for claims about the world, assess the claim (t/f) Assess using background beliefs (background info. , world view: we should proportion our belief to the evidence. Analytic: truth value determined by the meaning of its terms. Synthetic: truth value is not determined by the meaning of its terms: truth value is determined (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:862)ho(cid:449) the (cid:449)o(cid:396)ld is(cid:863), (cid:862)e(cid:373)pi(cid:396)i(cid:272)al(cid:863) Necessary: its impossible for it to have a different truth value (analytic: tautology: necessarily true, contradictions: necessarily false.
