Difference between revisions of "Philosophical Methods"
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| − | + | Philosophers try to know the nature of things by using some of the following techniques: | |
*Defining terms | *Defining terms | ||
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*Fundamental focus on argument | *Fundamental focus on argument | ||
*Searching for counter-examples | *Searching for counter-examples | ||
| + | *Searching for necessity | ||
*Using thought experiments | *Using thought experiments | ||
| + | *Looking carefully at phenomena | ||
*Dialectic -- logic in process.... | *Dialectic -- logic in process.... | ||
Revision as of 16:36, 22 September 2008
Philosophers try to know the nature of things by using some of the following techniques:
- Defining terms
- Questioning presuppositions
- Distinguishing senses
- Discovering entailments
- Fitting principles to cases
- Discovering ignorance
- Discovering limits of knowledge
- Theorizing from conceptual considerations
- Theorizing from current and new knowledge
- Maintaining logical consistency / searching out inconsistency
- Acknowledging logical possibility
- Fundamental focus on argument
- Searching for counter-examples
- Searching for necessity
- Using thought experiments
- Looking carefully at phenomena
- Dialectic -- logic in process....
