PHILOS 8- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 70 pages long!)
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Philosophical investigation : understand the complexity, appreciate the complexity. Some observations cannot be used to explain or strengthen certain theories. Some may draw metaphysical conclusions from epistemic evidence/claims. Nature of justification and how they are justified. Has to be justified in believing the theory. Having a true justified belief is not enough for knowledge. : look at the good sources of the justification. How do arguments give us a good path to justified beliefs. Arguments: made up for premises and conclusions. All logical arguments fall into two types: Deductive arguments: truth of the premises guarantee the truth of the conclusion. The content of the conclusion is present. If premises are true, then the conclusion must be true. If new premises are added, the conclusion is still true. There cannot be a valid deduction with true premises and a false conclusion. If premises are true, so is the conclusion. Result goes beyond what happening in the premises.
