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

Objectivity, like all other intellectual virtues, is part of rationality. The character trait of objectivity is a disposition to resist bias, and hence to base one’s beliefs on the objective facts. The main failures of objectivity are cases where your beliefs are overly influenced by your personal interests, emotions, or desires, or by how the phen

disjunction (an “or” statement).

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

Deductive: A deductive argument is one in which the premises are supposed to support the conclusion conclusively,

correspondence theory of truth. It says that truth is correspondence with reality.

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

negations,

Political Philosophy: Studies good and bad social institutions, and how society ought to be arranged.

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