PHI 1101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Cholesterol, Abdominal Thrusts, Coronary Artery Disease

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHI 1101
• Professor: Sascha Maicher

Document Summary

Textbook: explanation we want to explain why an event occurred, so we want to attempt to discover its cause. D id sih"s use of the heimlich maneuver save k itt"s life: contro l if we know the casual factors that produce an event, we may be able to manipulate them and obtain results we want. Why do some families remain on welfare for generations: prediction we want to know if we can expect an event to happen, so we attempt to discover what causes such events. You are driving and notice the red warning light glowing on your dashboard the engine has overheated. You pull over, raise the hood, and see a long tear in a radiator hose. The hose has burst, and all the coo lant has run out. We can say the engine overheated because there was no coo lant in the radiator. The lack of coo lant caused the engine to overheat.