Ad hominem | But Doctor, surely your advice that I should not drink coffee is not sound advice since you yourself often drink coffee. |
Apprehension | It is the beginning of knowledge. It is when we have an understanding or an idea of things that we can say we know. |
TRUE | The aim of psychoanalysis therapy is to release repressed emotions and experiences, i.e. make the unconscious conscious. |
A person cannot be both a friend and enemy at the same time. | Which among the propositions is conjunctive? |
TRUE | Philosophy is the science by which the natural light of reason studies the first causes or highest principles of all things. |
Formal Logic | This discusses the conceptual patterns or structures needed for a valid and correct argument or |
Ad baculum | You ought to try to study harder in school this year, Ron, because it will spare your parents the embarrassment of a letter from the instructor telling them you're slipping. |
TRUE | If one concept agrees with a third term and the other disagrees with the same third term, then they disagree with each other. If A agrees with B, but C does not agree with A, then B and C do not agree with each other. |
FALSE | Self apprehension and comprehension are useful to put order in our universal concepts by ways of classification and to assign the proper nature of things when we try to understand and define them. |
Metaphysics | The study of the fundamental nature of existence as such, and the fundamental questions of |
Vegetative | This corresponds to nutrition and growth, as well as reproduction. |
Term | It is the external manifestation or sign of an idea. It is a written or spoken word. |
Analogous | It is a term that expresses a meaning that is partly different and partly the same, or meanings |
TRUE | For Greeks, their Philosophy is cosmo-centric; "from where does everything come?" |
Univocal | It expresses only ONE meaning or sense when applied to several objects. |
All of these people do not belong here. | Which among the statements is a universal negative? |
Dictum de Nullo | This law states that whatever is denied universally, in a formal manner, of a logical whole or class, should also be denied of its logical parts. |
Judgment | It is the act by which the intellect relates or combines ideas or concepts. |
Id | According to Freud, which part of the mind is dominated by the pleasure principle? |
Formal Logic | This discusses the conceptual patterns or structures needed for a valid and correct argument or inference. It deals with the correct patterns of argumentation. |
Tell the manager of the incident. | Which is not a proposition among the following statements? |
Ad Populum | Those who say that extra-sensory perception is not reliable are mistaken. The police, Hollywood stars, and politicians have all relied on it. |
Apprehension | It is the beginning of knowledge. It is when we have an understanding or an idea of things that |
Inductive Argument | It is a process of reasoning which proceeds from specific or particular instances to the formulation of general or universal principles or statements. |
TRUE | If each of two concepts agrees respectively with the same third concept, then they also agree with each other. If A agrees with B, and B agrees with C, then A agrees with C. |
FALSE | According to Hume, all our more complex ideas can be reducible to more complicated ideas. |
Ad Populum | Plato, the idealist, presented the three parts of soul namely: |
FALSE | For Indians, their philosophy is Egocentric; "What am I doing here?" |
Cosmology | The study of the nature of the universe or the cosmos. |
Unconscious mind | According to Freud, primitive instinctual motives and repressed memories are stored in the__________. |
Action | Motion of the substance, commonly inducing a result in another thing. e.g. running, sawing,baking. |
Logic | The study of science and art of correct inferential reasoning. |
TRUE | As the comprehension of the idea increases, the extension decreases and vice versa. |
Some tragedies are natural events. | Which among the statements is a particular affirmative? |
Enunciation | It is a pronouncement that is considered as the mental product of the act of judgment. |
Action | Motion of the substance, commonly inducing a result in another thing. e.g. running, sawing, |
Giraffes are all animals., All things are not permanent. | Which among the statements is a universal affirmative? |
A squash is not an eggplant. | Which is NOT an example of affirmative judgment? |
Straw Man | You support capital punishment just because you want an "eye for an eye," but I have several good reasons to believe that capital punishment is fundamentally wrong... |
Ego | According to Freud, which part of the mind is composed mainly of life and death instincts? |
Inductive Argument | It is a process of reasoning which proceeds from specific or particular instances to the |
Judgment | It is the act by which the intellect relates or combines ideas or concepts. |
TRUE | No term may have a greater extension in the conclusion than in the premises. This applies to the |
Rationalism | A Philosophical school of thought believes in the superiority of the mind in finding the truth and acquiring knowledge, but since pure reason tends to be very formalistic, they tend to be dogmatic. |
Some warriors are not winners. | Which among the statements is a particular negative? |
TRUE | If one concept agrees with a third term and the other disagrees with the same third term, |
Some politicians are liars. | All are categorical or attributive proposition EXCEPT: |
Ad ignorantiam | No mathematician has ever been able to demonstrate the truth of the variants of the Goldberg conjecture, so they cannot all be true. |
FALSE | Philosophy is a review of what is right and what is wrong and aims to determine the right from the wrong and the wrong from reasoning. |
TRUE | Aristotle believed that man had a natural drive for society, being a political animal, as well as for knowledge, God, and ultimately, happiness. |
Begging the Question | Plagiarism is deceitful because it is dishonest. |
Quantity | Modification of substance with regards to the effect of having extended and measurable parts. |
Analogous | It is a term that expresses a meaning that is partly different and partly the same, or meanings that are related. |
Ad verecundiam | But Mom, I don't see why I have to wear socks; Einstein never did wear socks. |
Dictum de Omni | This law states that whatever is affirmed universally, in a formal manner, of a logical whole or class, should also be affirmed of its logical parts. |
Repression | The ego's mechanism for suppressing and forgetting instinctual impulses. |
Syllogism | One form of deductive argument which is a set of three propositions, the first two being the premises and the last is the conclusion. The conclusion must always follow and must be derived from the premises. |
Ad Misericordiam | Mia Lei has really worked hard on her term project, and she will really be depressed if she does not make an A. For these reasons, you just have to give her an A on her project. |
Abstraction | It is the process by which the intellect strips the object of its nonessential qualities, retains the |
TRUE | No term may have a greater extension in the conclusion than in the premises. This applies to the two terms in the conclusion namely the major and the minor terms. If a term is used as a particular in the premise, it must remain particular in the conclusion, otherwise, the same |
Love of wisdom | Philosophy is taken from the Greek words philo and sophia, which mean |
TRUE | Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions since no definite answers can be, as a rule, known to be true, but rather for the sake of the questions themselves. |
TRUE | A question is philosophical when it is reflexive. |
Red Herring | It is ridiculous to have spent thousands of dollars to rescue those two whales trapped in the Arctic ice. Why, look at all the people trapped in jobs they don't like. |
All of these people do not belong here. | Some things are permanent. |
Ad Populum | Everyone believes that men write the best novels; therefore, there is little doubt that they do so. |