Philosophy Answers

Discuss in detail the relationship between rights and Justice

why did the idea of a geocentric universe appear to be a matter of common sense?

Use a conversation with a friend or a family member and listen for an argument of at least three ordinary English sentences that can be translated to symbolic logical statements. Analyze one of the statements using truth tables to determine whether the translated sentence is tautologous, self-contradictory, or contingent. Next, compare two of the translated statements using truth tables to determine whether it is logically equivalent, contradictory, consistent or inconsistent. Finally, use all three statements to set up an argument using truth tables to determine the validity of the argument. If valid, why? If not, why not?

As you know from reading Keith DeRose’s “Contextualism and Knowledge Attributions,” the contextualist maintains that the truth-value of propositions of the form “S knows that p” vary across contexts of knowledge ascription. Would the truth-value of p, understood as any proposition simple or complex vary across contexts? Hint: The correct answer here will not be the same as the answer one would get from a skeptical invariantist.

Does Peter Unger claim, in “A Defense of Skepticism,” that it is a requirement of skepticism that some of the terms we use in ordinary language are used imprecisely when, in fact, their meanings should not be taken to vary across contexts of use? That is, are the meanings of some terms absolute? Yes or no.

What is invariantism in epistemology?

Why, according to Descartes, are propositions derived from the senses are particularly suspect?

According to Edmund L. Gettier, can one have a justified true belief and fail to have knowledge? Provide one of Gettier’s examples and briefly explain it

2. In the Theatetus, Plato rejects three accounts of knowledge. Give one of them and briefly say why he rejects it. What account of knowledge does he eventually endorse, or at least come closest to endorsing?