Republic of the Philippines

Department of Education,
Region VII, Central Visayas
SCHOOLS DIVISION OF CEBU CITY

No. 1.3 Title: METHODS OF PHILOSOPHIZING

I. ACTIVITY 1. Comic Strip (Critical Thinking, Communication, Character)

Directions: Analyze the comic strip and answer the following questions.
 ACTIVITY 2. FACTS VS. OPINION (Critical Thinking) Directions: Analyze the following
statements. Write F if it is FACT and O if it is OPINION. Write your answer before the
number.
F 1. According to the latest survey, families are purchasing more household items on credit.
O 2. You can hear all news you need to know from the BBC Radio 1 news team.
O 3. The professor argues that the effect of carbon emissions on the surrounding environment
will only get worse.
F 4. The research team has discovered a new method for conducting this chemical analysis.
F 5. The latest poll shows a marked increase in employee dissatisfaction.
O 6. I think public opinion will change over time.
O 7. This book is an enjoyable story of life in a small village.
F 8. The use of computers at the college has increased and the stationery budget has doubled
in the last few years.

ACTIVITY 3. I-BILIB (Critical Thinking, Communication)

 ACTIVITY 4. LET’S APPLY (Critical Thinking, Character). Directions: Fill in the table below
with the main proponents of methods of philosophizing. For each method, answer the
questions: “How can you find truth using this method?” and “On what real-life situation can
you apply this method?”

Methods of Main Proponent(s) How can you find On what real-life

Philosophizing truth using this situation can you
method? apply this method?

By exchanging
contradicting logical
1.) Dialectic Socrates and George arguments and facts During debates in
Hegel with two or more school.
people to find the
truth.

If the ideas are useful

and practical to your
2.) Pragmatic John Dewey and life, like solving In studying and also
Charles Pierce problems. And if it choosing things.
leads to a successful
experience.

I can use this in

Edmund Husserl, When an idea can be
researching about a
Martin Heidegger, explained in terms of
3.) Phenomenologica lesson (such as the
Jean-Paul Sartre and matter and of how
l eclipse or the tides)
Maurice Merleau- things appear to our
that is needed in
Ponty awareness.
school.

In primary reflection it
is by examining the
4.) Primary and Gabriel Marcel, Soren
object by abstraction, I can use this in
Secondary Kierkegaard and
by breaking it down researching about a
Reflections Friedrich Nietzsche;
into its parts while broad topic for an
Jean Paul Sartre and
secondary reflection is Investigatory Project.
Simone de Beauvoir
when it unifies and see
the bigger picture.

I can use this in

By analyzing language
learning and studying
Ludwig Wittgenstein, with the use of words
the use and meaning
George Edward Moore and following rules to
of this certain word
5.) Analytic and Bertrand Russell communicate words.
and its difference in
Also, by stating facts.
other places.