ACS 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Spurious Relationship, Starship Troopers, Pragmatism
12 Jan 2017
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Lying- you know the truth, you are opposing. Truth - p and if only p (formalism- truth is true), truth (pragmatic- true belief . Authority- you believe what you believe based on your parents, statistics. Inquiry- humility, curiosity, desire, open-mindedness, accepting you may be wrong, as soon as you start to assume something, you cut off inquiry and lessen your life experience. Four grades of ideology (it is a sliding scale) Peaceful ideologies- closest to truth than other ideologies innocent, condition, useful & often true. What makes them harmless, is that they have been tested (we don"t look into them) Questionable, cliched, automated, often false (ordinary assumptions) Ex. (tenacity) i don"t care what anybody says (you against the world), sucks to be you , (authority)father/mother know best, statistics show (spurious correlation), god is a male, (fashion) everybody"s doing it ,
