Class 01
lecture 1
lecture 3
Assignment 01
Questions
Class 04
1 Metaphysics/Ontology
world views
1.1 Questions
1.2 situated cognition and concepts ?
what is the role of individual
1.3 is there a parent class in which all classes are subsumed?
summom bonum
Thing: Being; Strings; atoms; Process(becomings);
Heraclitus
an answer to this question depends on what is your ontology?
1.4 apparent and real
Anaxemenes
a character of a theory;
reduction
1.4.1 atomism
atomism of form: Pythagoras, Plato
atomism of substance;
first principles
1.4.2 which story (theory) is better than the other
1.5 Change
curiosity; seek explanations;
stories, thoeries;
interpretation;
2 Epistemology:
what are the sources of knowledge?
how do we know truth?
how do we know the world around?
practical justifiation provide some warrenty to the theories
2.1 what is the source of knowledge?
sense experince;
pre-existing knowledge; question begging;
experiments
extrapolations
reason; contradictions;
2.2 pirnicple of contradiction
p and not-p are not true at the same time.
aplying reason; inference
inferred knowledge
inference can be either valid or invalid;
statement can be either true or false.
2.2.1 inference 2
All donkeys are wise. T
Socrates is a donkey.
Therefore Socreates is wise.
this is a valid inference.
inference is blind/neutral to truth.
2.2.2 valid and true are two different things
2.3 convention (conventionalism)
2.4 experince (empiricims)
2.5 reason (rationalism ) coherence as truth.
2.6 it works (pragmatism)
Date: 2009-10-20 11:39:37 IST
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