PHIL 101 - Final Exam Questions and
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might a philosopher use to explore questions? - correct answer ✅
What is Philosophy? What is a philosophical question? What sorts of methods
Philosophy is
an activity that seeks to understand abstract questions that cannot be answered
using things like mathematics or experimental science. And it's a set of tools and
methods that are particularly useful in trying to answer those types of questions.
So it's both a set of questions or topics and also a set of tools or methods.
Philosophy is like all other studies that aim primarily at knowledge whether it is
critical examination, prejudices, and beliefs.
Philosophy is about asking questions which are already capable of definite
answers placed in the sciences.
The value of philosophy is that there are infinite amount of answers to a certain
question.
Russell states that philosophy should be studied not for complete answers
because many questions can have many answers. Questions lead to more
conceptual questions to ask.
There's also a set of philosophical habits, disciplines, and values that guide
philosophers in their explorations of those topics. So defining philosophy is about
as hard as defining any of the concepts that we explore in philosophy or using
philosophy.
,PHIL 101 - Final Exam Questions and
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What are some of Zeno's paradoxes? - correct answer
that seem to be true to a claim that couldn't be true.
✅ We got from the claims
So we start with claims that seems like it must be true or are told they're true.
A claim that couldn't be true.
So this is a paradox or something seemingly cannot be true, but seems
nevertheless to have been entailed or implied by a set of statements that seemed
true.
This helps us get a sense of what an argument is.
An argument is a set of statements that entail are caused us to believe a further
statement called the conclusion. So a argument is a set of premises that support a
conclusion.
Philosophy is in some sense the science of arguments and argumentations.
The study of how good arguments work and what bad arguments look like.
,PHIL 101 - Final Exam Questions and
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Logic is a branch of philosophy that studies in particular kind of argument called a
deductive argument, particular type of argument.
- correct answer
paradox
✅
What is the central paradox of Lewis Carrol's "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles"?
Helps to really understand the Achilles and the Tortoise
Tortoise suggests that there's an example in logic that is like the race paradox in
that it will take an infinite number steps to get to the conclusion
The central problem is that logical relationships aren't just further facts added to
an argument, they're movements from premises to conclusions.
We're getting from the premises to the conclusion. But on reflection it's not clear
how we're doing it.
How did we get to the conclusion?
Well we can recognize that there's link between the premises and the conclusion
such that I need to accept that conclusion if I accept the premises.
So add and another premise saying, well if you accept the premises, you must
accept that conclusion.
It keeps going until infinity.
, PHIL 101 - Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest 2025)
So you get this self iterating, re, reiterating process that creates a sort of infinite
regress, an infinite loop of reasoning. It seems like moving from the premises to
the conclusion is a kind of activity.
Recognizing good reasoning is somehow more than memorizing a series of cliams
are facts.
Philosophy at developing that skill, but its hard and it takes time to grasp more
complex arguments.
four noble truths? - correct answer ✅
What is Buddha's basic outlook on life and the goal of life as encompassed in the
The Buddha gave his teaching "for the
good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
Walpola describes that the way of life to be followed, practiced, and developed by
each individual. It is self-discipline in body, word, and mind, self-development, and
self-purification which leads to the realization of Ultimate Reality.
Walpola describes the Ultimate Realization as the key to complete freedom,
happiness, and peace through moral, spiritual, and intellectual perfection.
The Four Noble Truths Constitute to the heart of his message and presumably
express, in condensedaform, what he learned under under the Bo-tree. The
second selection is a commentary, from a Theravadan viewpoint, on the Fourth
Noble Truth by a contemporary Sri Lankan Buddhist scholar, Dr. Walpola Rahula.
Answers (Latest 2025)
might a philosopher use to explore questions? - correct answer ✅
What is Philosophy? What is a philosophical question? What sorts of methods
Philosophy is
an activity that seeks to understand abstract questions that cannot be answered
using things like mathematics or experimental science. And it's a set of tools and
methods that are particularly useful in trying to answer those types of questions.
So it's both a set of questions or topics and also a set of tools or methods.
Philosophy is like all other studies that aim primarily at knowledge whether it is
critical examination, prejudices, and beliefs.
Philosophy is about asking questions which are already capable of definite
answers placed in the sciences.
The value of philosophy is that there are infinite amount of answers to a certain
question.
Russell states that philosophy should be studied not for complete answers
because many questions can have many answers. Questions lead to more
conceptual questions to ask.
There's also a set of philosophical habits, disciplines, and values that guide
philosophers in their explorations of those topics. So defining philosophy is about
as hard as defining any of the concepts that we explore in philosophy or using
philosophy.
,PHIL 101 - Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest 2025)
What are some of Zeno's paradoxes? - correct answer
that seem to be true to a claim that couldn't be true.
✅ We got from the claims
So we start with claims that seems like it must be true or are told they're true.
A claim that couldn't be true.
So this is a paradox or something seemingly cannot be true, but seems
nevertheless to have been entailed or implied by a set of statements that seemed
true.
This helps us get a sense of what an argument is.
An argument is a set of statements that entail are caused us to believe a further
statement called the conclusion. So a argument is a set of premises that support a
conclusion.
Philosophy is in some sense the science of arguments and argumentations.
The study of how good arguments work and what bad arguments look like.
,PHIL 101 - Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest 2025)
Logic is a branch of philosophy that studies in particular kind of argument called a
deductive argument, particular type of argument.
- correct answer
paradox
✅
What is the central paradox of Lewis Carrol's "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles"?
Helps to really understand the Achilles and the Tortoise
Tortoise suggests that there's an example in logic that is like the race paradox in
that it will take an infinite number steps to get to the conclusion
The central problem is that logical relationships aren't just further facts added to
an argument, they're movements from premises to conclusions.
We're getting from the premises to the conclusion. But on reflection it's not clear
how we're doing it.
How did we get to the conclusion?
Well we can recognize that there's link between the premises and the conclusion
such that I need to accept that conclusion if I accept the premises.
So add and another premise saying, well if you accept the premises, you must
accept that conclusion.
It keeps going until infinity.
, PHIL 101 - Final Exam Questions and
Answers (Latest 2025)
So you get this self iterating, re, reiterating process that creates a sort of infinite
regress, an infinite loop of reasoning. It seems like moving from the premises to
the conclusion is a kind of activity.
Recognizing good reasoning is somehow more than memorizing a series of cliams
are facts.
Philosophy at developing that skill, but its hard and it takes time to grasp more
complex arguments.
four noble truths? - correct answer ✅
What is Buddha's basic outlook on life and the goal of life as encompassed in the
The Buddha gave his teaching "for the
good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
Walpola describes that the way of life to be followed, practiced, and developed by
each individual. It is self-discipline in body, word, and mind, self-development, and
self-purification which leads to the realization of Ultimate Reality.
Walpola describes the Ultimate Realization as the key to complete freedom,
happiness, and peace through moral, spiritual, and intellectual perfection.
The Four Noble Truths Constitute to the heart of his message and presumably
express, in condensedaform, what he learned under under the Bo-tree. The
second selection is a commentary, from a Theravadan viewpoint, on the Fourth
Noble Truth by a contemporary Sri Lankan Buddhist scholar, Dr. Walpola Rahula.
