Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Please watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6b3oA83GaE
The Matrix
Please watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDadfh0ZdBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EVM5-_fusjs
Elenchus = argument of
refutation
Also equated with cross
examination
The objections put forward are
for purifying opinion from
lingering biases and prejudices
Paano mo nasabi?!
Can you really explain and defend what you
believe in?
Phenomenology is literally
the rational explanation or
study of phenomenon.
Phenomena = the
appearances (experience of
things.)
Phenomenology of Immanuel Kant
Noumena = thing as it is in
themselves.
The Lived Experience: Phenomenological
Inquiry
Meaning-making: Phenomena
pertains to the meaning and
significance of things to the
perceiving subject.
1. Correspondence- If a
statement/belief corresponds to
or represent, a fact in the world
then it is
TRUE. If it does not correspond
to a fact a statement/belief,
then it is FALSE.
2. Coherence- We can know
whether a statement/belief is
true by examining whether it
coheres with
the rules of the relevant system.
If it coheres with these rules,
then it is TRUE; if it does not,
then it is
FALSE.
3. Pragmatism- We can know whether a statement/belief is true by
examining the consequences of
holding or accepting the statement/belief to be true. It’s statement/belief
results to beneficial
consequences it is TRUE, if not it is FALSE
Particular Methods of Truth
1. Observation/Perception
2. Reasoning
3. Intuition
4. Mystical experience
5. The appeal to authority
Suggested Further Reading: Logical Fallacies
• https://thebestschools.org/magazine/15-logical-fallacies-know/
Suggested Further Study:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16PryJonegA
Activity: Breakout Groups