Philo test numero uno

if the premises are true then the conclusion is true

-the premises necessitate the conclusion

valid and the premises are true (debateable)

If P=>Q and you have P, you must have Q

If P=>Q and you don't have Q, you don't have P

If P=>Q and you don't have P, you don't have Q

If P=>Q and you have Q, you must have P

• Necessary: Showing up is necessary for taking the test
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• Sufficient: Showing up is sufficient for taking the test
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some apriori knowledge and some inferential knowledge

apriori knowledge is innate

basic knowledge from 5 senses

• start out doubting everything to deterime what you don't doubt
• -bad senses
• -All beliefs in external world (dream)
• -Math and logic (evil demon)

• Cogito- I think therefore I am
• Wax example
• -My knowledge of the wax is not just from the 5 senses
• --When it melts I still know that iti s the same wax even though all of my senses tell me it's different
• -Some knowledge must exist outside of 5 senses
• --Rationalism

• Trademark arguement
• 1. I have an idea of God
• 2. My idea of God represents an infinitely perfect being
• -5. Everything has a cause
• -6. the cause of my idea of an infinitely perfect being must be infinitely perfect
• -7. I am not infinitely perfect
• 3. I couldn't have such an idea if there were no such being
• 4. An infinitely perfect being exists.

• Problem of error
• -I freely believe things that are not clear and distinct
• -Error comes from when we judge things that we don not clearly and distinctly percieve
• ----Judgement=understanding and will

Reintroduce essential truths (primary ideas)

• Ontological arguement:
• 1. God is perfect.
• 2. (Necessary) existance is a perfection
• 3. God (necessarity) exists.

Not from 5 senses

Not from 5 senses, had it before birth

• N:true in all possible worlds/situations
• C:could have been false

• -Define virtue
• -Problem of the one and the many
• -Theory of the forms
• -Knowledge of forms-----paradox of seeker
• -recollection
• -Proves by teaching slave geometry

Plato is a nativist

• Justify true belief
• -an opinion that can be justified by evidence

Are things pious because the y are loved by the gods or do the gods love them because they are pious?