Knowledge, Reality, and Value: A Mostly Common Sense Guide to Philosophy

we should think rationally and objectively.

You have to stop once in a while to ask yourself how you might be biased. If

Philosophy of Science: Studies philosophical questions about how science works and the philosophical implications of scientific theories.

when the premises entail the conclusion;

you have a deductive argument, then the argument needs to be valid, sound, and non-circular.

“metaphysical possibility”. In this broad sense, things can be “possible” even if you know they are false, and even if they contradict the laws of nature.

Premises: The premises of an argument are the statements that are used to support the other statements.

Deontologists, in other words, think that the right course of action is not always to maximize the good.

Epistemology: Studies the nature of knowledge, whether and how we know what we think we know, and whether and how our beliefs are justified.