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Validity
if the premises are true then the conclusion is true
-the premises necessitate the conclusion
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Soundness
valid and the premises are true (debateable)
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Modes Ponens
If P=>Q and you have P, you must have Q
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Modes Tonens
If P=>Q and you don't have Q, you don't have P
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wrong conditional reasonings
If P=>Q and you don't have P, you don't have Q
If P=>Q and you have Q, you must have P
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Necessary and sufficient
- Necessary: Showing up is necessary for taking the test
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- Sufficient: Showing up is sufficient for taking the test
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Rationalism
some apriori knowledge and some inferential knowledge
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Nativism
apriori knowledge is innate
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Empiricism
basic knowledge from 5 senses
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1st meditation
- start out doubting everything to deterime what you don't doubt
- -bad senses
- -All beliefs in external world (dream)
- -Math and logic (evil demon)
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2nd Meditation
- Cogito- I think therefore I am
- Wax example
- -My knowledge of the wax is not just from the 5 senses
- --When it melts I still know that iti s the same wax even though all of my senses tell me it's different
- -Some knowledge must exist outside of 5 senses
- --Rationalism
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3rd Meditation
- Trademark arguement
- 1. I have an idea of God
- 2. My idea of God represents an infinitely perfect being
- -5. Everything has a cause
- -6. the cause of my idea of an infinitely perfect being must be infinitely perfect
- -7. I am not infinitely perfect
- 3. I couldn't have such an idea if there were no such being
- 4. An infinitely perfect being exists.
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4th Meditation
- Problem of error
- -I freely believe things that are not clear and distinct
- -Error comes from when we judge things that we don not clearly and distinctly percieve
- ----Judgement=understanding and will
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5th Meditation
Reintroduce essential truths (primary ideas)
- Ontological arguement:
- 1. God is perfect.
- 2. (Necessary) existance is a perfection
- 3. God (necessarity) exists.
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Apriori
Not from 5 senses
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Innate
Not from 5 senses, had it before birth
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Necessary vs contingent
- N:true in all possible worlds/situations
- C:could have been false
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Meno
- -Define virtue
- -Problem of the one and the many
- -Theory of the forms
- -Knowledge of forms-----paradox of seeker
- -recollection
- -Proves by teaching slave geometry
Plato is a nativist
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Knowledge
- Justify true belief
- -an opinion that can be justified by evidence
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Euthyphro
Are things pious because the y are loved by the gods or do the gods love them because they are pious?
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