PHIL 1000 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Fetus, Syllogism, Straw Man

• School: Fordham University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 1000
• Professor: Jaworski, William

Document Summary

/ proposition: a sentence that is either true or false. Often expressed by declarative sentences, but they can also be expressed by gestures or signals. Not the same as vagueness, vague is border case. To disambiguate a sentence you must identify and state the diverse meanings the sentence can have: Indexical expressions, e. g. i", you", here", now", this", that", today", yesterday", Indexicals are expressions whose referents depend on the context in which they are uttered. Evaluative expressions, e. g. good", bad", better", worse". Truth is a relation between statements and the world. This relation: p" is true if and only if p. Belief, disbelief, withholding, and other propositional attitudes are relations between statements and people. Evidence is relation between people and the world: subjective, objective evidence: evidence available in principle to more than one person, apriori evidence: roughly, evidence that can be gathered prior to any investigation of the world e. g. definitions.