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