[SOC SCI H1G] - Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam (74 pages long!)

• School: UC-Irvine
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOC SCI H1G
• Professor: Jeff Barrettand Kyle Stanford

Document Summary

The way of investigating that question (characteristic of humanities) method of answering questions (characteristic of social sciences) In his dialogue theaetetus, plato had socrates (a character in his dialogues) argue that knowledge was true belief with logos: according to plato, opinion is just belief. Knowledge is true belief with logos (two things). Logos is logic and reason; word, study; an explanation; a rational justification; a plan: so logos didn"t pin it down that precisely. Specify why these are good reasons that are defensible. Philosophers for the most part settled on knowledge as true justified belief: knowledge is belief that happens to be true and for which you have rational justification (you ought to believe it) Distinction between knowing how and knowing that: knowing how. I know how to ride a bicycle: knowing that. I don"t know that i"m doing something when i ride my bicycle.