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'''Philosophical Methods and Activities:'''
''''Philosophical Methods and Activities:''''
 
  
 
*Defining terms
 
*Defining terms

Revision as of 16:35, 22 September 2008

Philosophical Methods and Activities:

  • 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
  • Using thought experiments
  • Dialectic -- logic in process....