Philosophy › Section E · Logic and reasoning › Topic E.1
Philosophical methods for discovering truth
Philosophy has few settled answers, so it relies on a disciplined way of moving towards them. Reasoned dialogue, careful testing of hypotheses and a handful of basic laws of logic do most of the work.
In this topic
- Philosophy as a method
- Argument and dialectic
- Dialectic in classical India
- Dialectic in classical Greece
- Testing hypotheses
- Worked example: a dialectic in miniature
- The law of non-contradiction
- The law of excluded middle
- Worked example: testing a set of beliefs
- Logic as a norm
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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