Philosophical Methods
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Jump to navigationJump to searchPhilosophical 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....
