PHIL 150- Final Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 33 pages long!)
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Something edible, in a container that is also edible. In a container made of bread. No because panera bread bowl soup, hot dog. At least two pieces of disconnected bread, one on top and one on bottom. No because two pizzas on top of each other is not a sandwich. No because of bread sandwich (3 bread sandwich) We try to create a definition such that: We try to create a definition that: all sandwiches have those features. (necessary conditions, anything that has those features is a sandwich. (sufficient conditions) Easy to come up with counterexamples when the definition tries to be so exact. Is it thing + context + use + people-who-use-it = technology. (3) technology= soft ware? (a) it does not have to be physical could be language, techniques. (a. i) (a. ii) Ology: study of (4) applied science (a) too narrow Many scientists do not intend to invent what they actually do (vulcanized rubber, penicillin)
