MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 04 Started this week learning about testimony, reason and rationality and conditional statement. Under testimony, I learnt what testimony is , what are the philosophical issues concerning testimony, how can we divide our central issue about testimony along two dimensions yielding four distinct questions to investigate: Descriptive Local Question, Normative Local Question, Descriptive Global Question and Normative Global Question, about the scope of testimony, understanding and knowledge of what has been asserted, general explanatory account of how testimony-beliefs may be justified and knowledgeable, about the psychology of belief-acquisition through testimony, what are the conditions for justified beliefs in what one is told, about the knowledge of what one is told and under this learnt about Pure Transmission Principle (PTP) as well as Reliable Transmission Principle (RTP). Furthermore, I le...
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MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 03 Started learning about learning is a complicated practice and during learning one can make a lot of synapses within his/her brain which help to create short & long term memories, understanding & intellectual power. And also, learnt about the importance of learner centered teaching in which the learner has to contemplate and practice more on what the teacher teaches which help to create more synapses and long-term memory. Further, I could learn that how to learn in harmony with the brain like proper nutrition, hydration, sleep and exercise. Moreover, learnt the consequences of cramming without remembering, transference of learning & how to create connections in between learnt things in order to improve brain synapses. After that, I could learn about basic kinds of perceptions, different kinds of perceptual beliefs like propositional & objectual, elements of perceptions such as perceive...
MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 02 Started this week learning about logic which is considered as one of main branches of philosophy. Under the logic, I could learn about what arguments are, uses of arguments, what a language is, purposes of a language and uses of language in an argument. I learnt that logic is the systematic study of evaluating arguments. Moreover, learnt that this has been studied mostly in philosophy, mathematics, computer science, linguistics and cognitive science. The practical use of logic is mostly reasoning well. In general, argument has two different meaning in logic and mathematics. Here, I could learn that, in logic, an argument is a set of claims or propositions; the statements that can be true or false. One of such statements is conclusion and the others are premises where the premises are intended as offering reasons to believe or accept the conclusion. Furthermore, learnt about the difference betwee...
MY REFLECTION ABOUT THE PHILOSOPHICAL MATERIALS STUDIED WITHIN WEEK 01 Started this week learning about the difference between science and the philosophy. I learnt, in fact, that science is based on objective evidences because always it takes solid answer but philosophy is based on subjective evidences because it does not take any solid answer. Furthermore, clarified that philosophy does not follow an exact format like science. In fact, science is deterministic but not philosophy because in philosophy the results are usually taken through the way they are justified. Learnt the meaning of the philosophy in three different ways like as the word itself, goal & a function. For instance, the meaning of the word ‘Philosophy’ itself refers as love of wisdom. Furthermore, learnt about main branches of philosophy such as Epistemology that refers to as the study of knowledge, Logic which refers to as the study of reasoning, Ethics that refers to as the study of action, A...