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Gallego Salgado
The meaning of philosophy
Triangle
Antithesis
(Black Soul)
Explains:
1. how we know what we claim to know;
2. how we can find out what we wish to
know; and
3. how we can differentiate truth from
falsehood
• Induction - method of believing that general
ideas are formed form the examination of
particular facts.
• Empiricism - view that knowledge can be
attained only through sense experience.
• Deduction - method of finding a general law
according to which particular facts can be
understood or judged.
• Rationalism - view appealing to reason as a
source of knowledge or justification
• Pragmatism - approach that assesses the
truth of meaning of theories or beliefs in
terms of the success of their practical
D. Logic
• The term "logic" comes from the Greek word logike
which means a treatise on matters pertaining to
the human thought.
• Its concern is the truth or the validity of our
arguments regarding such objects.
• Aristotle was the first philosopher to devise a
logical method. He drew upon the emphasis on the
"universal" in Socrates, negation in Parmides and
Plato, and the reduction to the absurd of Zeeno of
Elea.
• Zeno of Citium is one of the successors of Aristotle.
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