Philosophical analysis, knowledge, perception, thought,concept, and percepts

Philosophical Analysis is the general term used by philosophers in the analytic tradition that involves breaking down of philosophical issues.

Functions:
• To construct theories about man and the universe
• To examine very carefully everything offered for a belief and its own theories

Analysis – from the Greek word analusis, meaning “to break down”
– the process of breaking down topics or substances into smaller parts to gain a better understanding

Methods of forming analysis:
• Explication
• Redefinition
• Illustration




Knowledge – the expertise and skills acquired by a person through experience or education.
– confident understanding of a subject with the ability to use for a specific purpose.
*acquisition involves complex cognitive processes

Four matters of fact:
• That something exist
• That something can be known
• That there is something which matters
• That something includes the foregoing statements

Other sources of knowledge:
• Customs and traditions
• Sensation and perception
• Intuition




Perception – the process of attaining awareness or understanding of sensory information.
– receiving, collecting, action and taking possession, and apprehension with the mind or senses.

perception experience knowledge science

*Edmund Hasserl
Bracketing – reducing, eliminating past experiences to learn something new that is presented to avoid prejudice.




Thought – are acts of thinking
– opinions and reflections

Concepts – habits of expectation
– serves as representations of objects
– ideas or mental images

Percepts – views, reflections, and impressions

People to remember:
• Titchener – image theory
• Hume –introspecting to discover what the self looked like
– “boundless perception”
• Heraclitus – perception is more or less arbitrarily caused out of the continous stuff.