2. Philosophy Philosophy is the science of the logical foundation of all knowledge It is the first logical science Philosophy is the highest generalization which scientific research suggest. It consist of great unifying truth, the science of sciences.
3. philosophy Philosophy is: (a) the attempt to acquire knowledge (b) by rational means (c) about topics that do not seem amenable to empirical investigation. Condition (a) distinguishes philosophy from creative disciplines such as literature or music. (b) distinguishes philosophy from mysticism and some varieties of religion. (c) distinguishes philosophy from the empirical sciences.
4. Metaphysics The study of logical foundation of science or of the real The theory of reality or the highest generalization regarding the real warranted by our present knowledge (Compared to Theory of Ideal or ethics and aesthetics)
5. Theory of reality What kinds of things exist? How many kinds of things are there? How are they related to one another? (E.g.: do minds exist? Numbers? God? Forms?)
6. Nature of information See without knowing (dog watching a machine) is not information See with knowing ( Dr seeing a patient) is information
7. Nature of truth Information may be true or false To know something is the subject believes it to be true
8. The nature of proposition X implies Y means: “if X then Y” if X is true, so is Y; If Y is false, so is X; But X may be false and Y still be true For example, if two sides of a triangle are equal, their opposite angles are equal. If the volume of a gas decreases, its pressure will increase If a body moves in empty space, it will move in a straight line with uniform velocity
