Thursday, September 5, 2019

homework #1, spring 2021

explaining questions need at least 40 words each.  it's prohibited to answer definitions by copy and paste. you must rephrase the definitions.   send your assignments to: atriff@mdc.edu
 

The idea is to pick a proposition of your own (remember, a proposition is just a sentence in quotes) of your own for each of the four branches, then immediately after the proposition proceed to briefly critique like as I did in the post. 

 
2. What are the main four branches of philosophy and what are their subject of study.
 
3. What is the Socratic method?

4. What is the fundamental stuff (arche) of the universe for Thales, Pythagoras, Heraclitus, Parmenides and the Atomists?  
 
 
5. Try to write down a valid deductive argument with false premises. 
 
6. What would take a deductive argument to be invalid? (think of what makes it valid)

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