Reviewer in Philosophy

Direction: Enumerate the answer, write your answer on a separate paper.

1. What is the study of or discipline that uses human reason to investigate the ultimate
causes, reason, and principles which govern all things?
2. What is the science and art of correct thinking?
3. It is an activity that requires a person to examine his or her thoughts, feelings, and actions
and learn from experience.
4. The type of philosophical reflection trains the mind to think logically. The mind also can
construct and evaluate arguments.
5. One of the triumvirate Greek philosophers pioneered a method of argument called
dialectic.
6. This is the process of thinking about something logically to form a conclusion or
judgment.
7. It is a term used to describe a philosophical argument method involving some sort of
contradictory process between opposing sides.
8. According to Gabriel Marcel, this type of reflection enables us to look deeper into our
experiences and see the bigger picture of reality.
9. The western philosophical tradition originated in______.
10. What is the branch of Philosophy that studies the nature and means of human knowledge?
11. It is an abstract or generic idea generalized from particular instances.
12. It is a mental grasp of reality reached either by perceptual observation or by a process of
reason based on perceptual observation.
13. Who institutionalized the pragmatic method of philosophizing?
14. This fallacy is committed when one reaches a generalization based on insufficient
evidence.
15. The five senses are useful tools to verify the truthfulness of propositions.
16. Why do we need epistemology?
17. Beliefs and statements are true if they are consistent with actual state of affairs.
18. Beliefs that lead to the best "payoff", that are the best justification of our actions that
promote success, are truths.
19. Statements are true on the degree to which it "hangs together" with all the other beliefs in a
system of beliefs.
20. It is a statement that can be proven true or false.
21. You know that “Snow is white" if and only if snow is white.
22. This type of fallacy most of TV commercials are guilty of this argument which exploit
people’s vanity, desires.
23. It is types of Fallacy Which Infers that something is true of a part, is true of a whole.
24. It is a statement of belief which may or may not be backed up by facts, but cannot be proven
true or false.
25. It is type of acquiring Knowledge that we perceive things we began to notice that some of the
things we perceive are similar to other things.

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