Methods of Philosophizing

A form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presuppositions.

• Socratic Method

• Dialectic Method

• Scientific Method

• Historical Method

At base a discourse between two or more people holding different points of view about a subject but wishing to establish the truth through reasoned methods of argumentation.

• Socratic Method

• Dialectic Method

• Scientific Method

• Historical Method

Also called empirical method, is a process of determining truth or knowledge through experimentation, inductive and deductive reasoning, and hypothesis or theory testing.

• Socratic Method

• Dialectic Method

• Scientific Method

• Historical Method

The process of gathering evidence, examining them, and formulating ideas about the past to come up with present truths.

• Socratic Method

• Dialectic Method

• Scientific Method

• Historical Method

An argument that is intended by the arguer to be strong enough that, if the premises were to be true, then it would be unlikely that the conclusion is false.

• Inductive Argument

• Deductive Argument

• Conductive Argument

• Abductive Argument

An argument in which the arguer is maintaining that the premises show that the conclusion is necessarily true.

• Inductive Argument

• Deductive Argument

• Conductive Argument

• Abductive Argument

An argument in which the premises converge together and that the absence of one cannot affect the conclusion.

• Inductive Argument

• Deductive Argument

• Conductive Argument

• Abductive Argument

An argument that take away a logical assumption, explanation, inference, conclusion, hypothesis, or best guess from an observation or set of observations. Because the conclusion is merely a best guess, the conclusion that is drawn may or may not be true.

• Inductive Argument

• Deductive Argument

• Conductive Argument

• Abductive Argument

Fallacies can be either strong arguments or relevant points that is factual and has a sound basis.

• True

• False

A premise is an assertion or proposition which forms the basis for a work or theory

• True

• False