Philosopy and science-theory exam done

Wrote 8 pages.. Question was to compare Platoe's Kant's and Popper's view on knowledge. Could write a lot about Plato, a lot about Kant, not so much about Popper as I didn't read much up on him. I hope I get a C :p
 
What you just wrote went way over my head...but congrats anyway,and good luck with the grade:biggrinsanta:
 
Wrote 8 pages.. Question was to compare Platoe's Kant's and Popper's view on knowledge. Could write a lot about Plato, a lot about Kant, not so much about Popper as I didn't read much up on him. I hope I get a C :p

Love Philosophy, there is bits and pieces we can take from all of them. My favorite dude is: Henry David Thoreau. There is much beauty in core classes that surround one's major, they can always be bridged into our lives, and into our professional practice in some fashion (during certain experiences in life), and become a benefit.

Great job. Hope you get the grade you had earned.

Best wishes

Chillen
 
Love Philosophy, there is bits and pieces we can take from all of them. My favorite dude is: Henry David Thoreau. There is much beauty in core classes that surround one's major, they can always be bridged into our lives, and into our professional practice in some fashion (during certain experiences in life), and become a benefit.

Great job. Hope you get the grade you had earned.

Best wishes

Chillen

If you hope I get the grade I have earned you're hoping I get an E :p I haven't really read much, but I've been tactical, I've read about what often comes on the exams.
 
If you hope I get the grade I have earned you're hoping I get an E :p I haven't really read much, but I've been tactical, I've read about what often comes on the exams.

I can not hope for anything more than what you put into it, and worked on, that would produce (hopefully) the grade you had earned. :)

Like I told my kids when growing up. You "increase the odds" of getting what you want with the amount of effort you put into what you want.....If the want (desire, etc), is low, then the effort to get this want usually follows, and you increase the odds of a lower result, though---you expected it. Base theme: One usually knows what to expect between the degrees of want and effort, what the outcome could be.

Thats one of my philosophies.....he, he :)

Glad you are doing well, keep on trucken' young man.


Chillen
 
That's the difference between Europe and Canada. We don't learn about Kant until 3rd or 4th year. His writings are considered too difficult for 1st and 2nd year philosophy.

I don't know anything about Popper, so I guess I'd be getting a C, too :D

But if you rocked it out with Plato and Kant, since Kant is considered a more difficult philosopher to interpret properly, you might just end up with a B+ :)

Who is this Popper dude anyway?
 
Popper is basically the guy who thought scientists should try to falsify each others research as a way to prove it's worth instead of trying to verify it.

I don't think Kant is that difficult, simply because he makes sense. Humans see the world through human eyes. We need to see things in space and time for example, without that we can't experience things. In addition to that we've got categories, the most important one is causality. To us, the effect will always follow the cause. If we didn't have these categories, we wouldn't be able to enterprit what time and space let us experience. There might be other creatures with other categories and creatures who perhaps can see in 4,5,6, and so on, dimensions.
 
I do, it's on Friday. Multiple choice exam :p Research methods in human movement science. It sucks, it's boring, but I'll get through it :p
 
Do you have to study, or will it be a slam-dunk for you?

That depends on the questions I guess. We did get some questions about half way in the cource that they said were similar to the questions that would come on the exam and I got like 1 error out of 25 questions, so I think I'm OK. But then again, there are about 100 questions on the exam. I've just been going through lecture notes. In an MC exam, the important things to know are the definitions.
 
Yep. And some MC exams are a biiatch to write, especially if they say "choose the BEST answer". That's so freaking subjective sometimes ...

BTW, good luck!!!
 
And sometimes they don't know their syntax, so the sentences can be weird. Besides, you have to read every question 5 times and basically spell it out so you make sure you got it correct. On my work phys exam, there were some true false questions, one of them said that the diaphram contracted during expiration and so on. Everything was correct except the expiration part. I read inspiration and wrote "true" when I proof read it before I handed it in I saw my mistake, luckily. I think the brain sort of puts in what it wants so that it is correct. Reading does not really go letter by letter. I should have persued my interest in linguistics, proved this and gotten MC exams banned :p
 
That's exactly what happens in T/F tests. Your brain reads words that aren't there and reads a question and thinks "Yeah, that's true". But it isn't. That has happened to me so many times, and I just kick myself when I get the exam back, because I think "if only I'd gone over this ONE more time, I might have seen my mistake". But my brain just kept seeing the same thing ... and it was dead wrong.

T/F and MC exams should definitely be banned :p
 
That's the difference between Europe and Canada. We don't learn about Kant until 3rd or 4th year. His writings are considered too difficult for 1st and 2nd year philosophy.

I don't know anything about Popper, so I guess I'd be getting a C, too :D

But if you rocked it out with Plato and Kant, since Kant is considered a more difficult philosopher to interpret properly, you might just end up with a B+ :)

Who is this Popper dude anyway?

I just achieved my business management degree and had to take lots of ethical courses which they made us use an incredible amount of philosophy in. I wrote all about utilitarianism and kantian ethics, so that's crazy that I had to learn so much of it in a business degree ??? hhhmmm....But I have never heard of popper either. I did a lot of comparison between utilitarians and kantians. Kantian ethics believed the right thing to do is instilled in the intention of the act, whereas utilitarians believe it is in the consequence of the act. We mostly learned about "what the right thing to do is" in life, like right and wrong. Very interesting stuff though.
 
Congrats on getting your degree in business management!

I agree that philosophy is very interesting stuff. I wish my brain worked more along those lines ...
 
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