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200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 5pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 5 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt 200 pt 300 pt 400 pt 500 pt 100 pt LOGIC ANCIENTMIDDLE EARLY MODERN 500 pt
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If we know that all philosophers are wise, this is the premise we need in order to conclude that Socrates is wise
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Socrates is a philosopher
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An example would be, “Plato is both tall and not tall.”
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Contradiction
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An example would be, “either Plato is tall or Plato is not tall.”
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Tautology
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No one is granted bail if they are held for murder. John is not held for murder. Therefore John will be granted bail
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Invalid
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Tom is Tall or Tom is Short Tom is Short or Tom is Wise Tom is Happy or Tom is Wise Tom is not Wise Therefore Tom is Short and Happy
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Valid
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This philosopher is most likely to say, “The chair you sit upon is a reflection of a perfect concept of chair, which is more real.”
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Plato
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This philosopher used paradoxes to refute the concept that things can be divided.
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Zeno
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This philosophical school said that emotions lead to unethical behaviour.
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Stoicism
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This Taoist epistemological philosopher may have been a butterfly
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Zuangzi
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He would challenge your assertion that, “I know for certain that the earth orbits the sun because I was told so by my teacher” and probably be killed for it.
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Socrates
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This much disputed argument says that we can infer the existence of God from the idea of God.
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The Ontological Argument
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This philosopher justified his ethics with reference to divine laws and natural laws.
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Saint Thomas Aquinas
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This philosopher rejected questions of metaphysics in favour of the practical matters of government.
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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This philosopher came up with the idea of a social contract to avoid the pain of natural state of mankind
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Hobbes
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He was responsible for challenging the Ptolemaic view of the universe.
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Copernicus
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This philosopher believed in a basic oneness to all things and rejected feelings as an adequate form of understanding.
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Spinoza
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According to Leibniz, these pre-programmed elements are the basic elements of the universe.
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Monads
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Both Hume and Locke advocated this theory of knowing through senses.
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Empiricism
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This philosopher believed that government can only intervene to support natural rights. He devised this from his idea of the “noble savage”
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Rousseau
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Hegel believed this to be the result of the conflict between a thesis and an antithesis.
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Synthesis
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This philosopher rejected materialism for a number of reasons, one of which is that a lack of value is a value itself
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Whitehead
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John Dewey espoused this theory that insists that the best way to know the truth of something is to test it in practice.
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Pragmatics
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This philosopher believed that the only way to be free is to eliminate social class.
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Karl Marx
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This philosopher used the myth of Sisyphus as a metaphor for the human absurdity of trying to make sense of a senseless world
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Camus
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According to Levi Strauss, the mind and body, as well as opposing elements in mythology are examples of this.
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Dualistic Elements
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