Things to Know for the Final Exam
(Note! This list is subject to revisions
until the last week of class!)
Format: The exam will consist of two parts: short answer
and long answer. There will be 20 short answer questions of which you pick
15. Answers should be anywhere from one to five sentences. There will be
6-8 long answer questions, of which you pick 3-4. Answers should be about
2-4 blue book pages. Please bring your own blue book. The exam is scheduled
for Saturday December 6 at 6pm, our
regular class place. You may bring in 1 page of notes, back and front.
Some Terms and
Principles
Deductive Arguments
Valid/Invalid
Soundness
Inductive Arguments
Strong/Weak
Cogent
A Priori
A Posteriori
Contingent
Necessary
Possible Worlds
Leibniz's Law
Law of Substitutivity of Co-Referential Terms
Mind/Body Dualism
Direct Realism
Indirect Realism
Primary Qualities
Secondary Qualities
Idealism
Scientific Induction
Counter-Induction
Perdurantist
Relationalist
Eternalism
Presentism
A-Theory
B-Theory
A-properties
B-relations
Temporal Parts
Spotlight View
Growing Block View
4Dism
3Dism
Pointiness
Universality
Uniqueness
Pointy Object Fundamentality
Pointy Fact Fundamentality
Spatiotemporalsim
Time Travel
Fatalism
Law of Bivalence
Future Contingents
Puzzles, Problems, Arguments, and Objections
Descarts' Cogito
Descartes' Argument(s) for Mind/Body Dualism
Intensional Fallacy
Descartes' Argument for the existence of God
Objections to Direct Realism
-Argument from Hallucinations/Illusions
-Argument from Variability and Relativity
5 Objections to Indirect Realism
-Variability Argument
-Inseparability Argument
-Inconceivability Argument
-Mysterious Relationship Argument
-Veil of Perception Argument
Problem of Induction
Paradox of the Ravens (Sainsbury's G1, E1, R1, and R2)
Grue Problem (Sainsbury's G1, GR1, and GR2)
Puzzle of Change
Tib and Tibbles
Staue and the Clay
Goliath and Lumpl (Hawthorne's Argument Against Temporal Parts Theory,
or 4Dism without Spatiotemporalism)
Temproal Parts View and Time Travel
Nowhere Argument
Presentism and Time Travel
Idle Argument
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Last Updated: December 1, 2008