[PHI1104] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes fot the exam (81 pages long!)

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*tests and final are long answer questions & thinking critically. People turn to traditions, cultures, texts etc. objectivity. The method of philosophy good argument/demonstration for it. Example of philosophy"s method exist?: ontological argument, how philosophers go about answering the metaphysical questions (does god. It doesn"t matter if you are religious, the reasoning is the same as math: made in middle ages, he is preceding as a philosopher, he has faith due to his revealed text (the. God being the greatest thing you could think of. Phi1104 lecture 2 the history of philosophy. A conversation: assertion = attempt to prove this is true, objection = attempt to justify the objection, new assertion = and we"re off . Straw man fallacy: the overarching question: what is it to be human, the 5 types: position, a fallacy is an error or weakness, epistemology, metaphysics, ethics and political, philosophy, logic.