34-226- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 31 pages long!)
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What is epistemology: epistemology is a branch of branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and scope (limitations) of knowledge. Fundamental questions of justification: many benefits are second nature to us, we have these beliefs without hesitation or reflection, philosophy examines the fundamental assumptions we make about ourselves and the world we inhabit. Involves the clarification of concepts: one difference between philosophical questions and regular questions are the concerns the way in which reason and observation helps answer them (not usually experimented or tested to find answers). Arguments in philosophy: what is distinctive about philosophy is not that philosophers construct and evaluate arguments, but the questions that those arguments aim to answer. Lecture 2 a brief primer on arguments. Types of arguments: there are 2 importantly different types of arguments: deductive and ampliative arguments, among ampliative arguments there are 3 important subcategories: inductive, abductive and analogical.