Friday, August 30, 2019

branches of philosophy in daily conversation

the art of philosophy is about propositions. here you have some examples:

eipstemology in daily conversation (how much we know)
 
"I know what I'm saying", (what does he/she means?) 
" Jay is not a good person", (1. is he not, really? and 2. what sort of criteria are they using?)
"People in the 1800s thought that____", (how they know?, historic research?, hearsay?, opinions?)
"I hate math", (are you sure? do you hate it or is it more that you afraid of it?)
"I want to be a nurse", (are you a nurse cause you want to or because, say, your parents want you to and you don't want to disappoint them? what about a dear friend that is a nurse and you wish to be like her?)

logic in daily conversation (whether our thinking process is correct)

"Jay has covid symptoms, so I'm Jay has covid" (can a person have symptoms and not have the disease?)
"If it rains the streets are wet; the streets are wet, so it must have rained" (do you see why this is not true? we call it a fallacy). 
"If you don't love me then you hate me" (are there not other possibilities?)

ethics in daily conversation (what's right and wrong)

"John is a bad person", (what makes a bad person for you? quick perceptions about the person, vibes, behavior? and if so, how do you objectively analyze this?)
"Alice has a bad character", (what is character? & what makes Alice's character "bad"?)

aesthetics in daily conversation (issues of taste and subjectivity)

"I love this car", (is this an assumption or a good observation?)
"Wow, you look hot", (why? emotions and reasons are not the same )
"This is the best chicken soup I've tasted so far", (is this true or is it a hyperbole? and suppose someone asks why? is he/she prepared to explain it?) 

metaphysics in daily conversation (ascertain the thing we refer to)

"The love I felt for you was not really love, it was more like infatuation", (the person being told this proposition needs an urgent definition of the distinction between the two, don't you think?) 

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