UNIT 3

• Epistemology word etymology 


  Episteme (knowledge), Logos (study)
• 3 kinds of knowledge 


  Personal, practical, propositional
• Personal knowledge 


  Knowledge acquired as we experience the world
• Practical knowledge 


  Also known as procedural knowledge, the type of knowledge we practice, those related to motor function
• Propositional knowledge

  Type of knowledge that makes a claim, proposes something to be true
• Criteria for a certain proposition to be considered "true"


  1. belief - one must have faith that his claim is true
  2. truth - the reality may counter our belief
  3. justification - what completed the nature of knowledge itself
• Logic


  Branch of philosophy that focuses on human mind
• Simple apprehension 


  First logical process of mind; grasping idea into the mind. Being able to hold a certain concept in one's mind.
• Judgment


  Second logical process of the mind; to connect one idea to another which results to proposition
• Reasoning


  The third logical process; collects propositions to prove that something is true
• Syllogism


  Central topic of reasoning. Form of argument that attempts to prove claims of proposition
• Hierarchy of beings


  Vegetative state, sentient beings, rational being
• Vegetative state


  Plants (have life, they breathe, they produce, they consume)!
• Minerals


  Lowest among all beings
• Sentient beings 


  Animals, can sense, feel, and move
• Rational being


  Man, has life, senses, reason