{"id":6211,"date":"2023-02-28T02:44:37","date_gmt":"2023-02-28T02:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/defining-10-philosophy-terms-in-your-own-words\/"},"modified":"2023-03-02T11:01:25","modified_gmt":"2023-03-02T11:01:25","slug":"defining-ten-philosophy-terms-in-your-own-words","status":"publish","type":"questions","link":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/questions\/defining-ten-philosophy-terms-in-your-own-words\/","title":{"rendered":"Defining ten Philosophy Terms in Your Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this assignment, you will identify vocabulary words that are of interest to you and define them in your own words.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Note, that the words in parenthesis are to guide you to the right section in weeks 3 and 4 to find the terms. All of the terms are defined in the week 3 or week 4 material.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Step 1:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Choose 10 terms from the provided list.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Constructive Empiricism (Science)<\/li>\n<li>Constructivism (Kant)<\/li>\n<li>Empirical Adequacy (Science)<\/li>\n<li>Empiricism<\/li>\n<li>Functionalism<\/li>\n<li>Idealism (Berkeley)<\/li>\n<li>Instrumentalism (Science)<\/li>\n<li>Materialism<\/li>\n<li>Mind-body dualism<\/li>\n<li>Nominalism<\/li>\n<li>Philosophical skepticism<\/li>\n<li>Rationalism<\/li>\n<li>realism (scientific)<\/li>\n<li>Synthetic A Priori<\/li>\n<li>Universals (Plato)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Step 2<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>For each term, do the following:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Provide a brief definition in your own words. DO NOT copy and paste a definition from anywhere. When you search online, add the word &#8220;philosophy&#8221; to the term and spell it properly to be sure you are getting the right information. &#8220;Idealism&#8221; in philosophy is very different from &#8220;Idealism.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>State whether it is related to metaphysics, epistemology, or both and in what way.<\/li>\n<li>Discuss how it factors into your belief system, or discuss something you feel is interesting about how the term fits into the study of metaphysics or epistemology.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<h2><strong>Scoring:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Each term will be worth 10 points. Points are awarded as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A single term is appropriately identified from the list (1pt)<\/li>\n<li>A detailed, accurate definition in your own words, not copy and pasted or plagiarized (4pts)<\/li>\n<li>The term is appropriately identified as metaphysics, epistemology, or both (2 pts)<\/li>\n<li>Clearly articulated how all it fits into your personal belief system (3 pts)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>***CHOOSE ANY 10 TERMS TO DEFINE***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this assignment, you will identify vocabulary words that are of interest to you and define them in your own words.&nbsp; Note, that the words in parenthesis are to guide you to the right section in weeks 3 and 4 to find the terms. All of the terms are defined in the week 3 or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"disciplines":[486],"paper_types":[],"tagged":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/6211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/questions"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6211"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/6211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6866,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/questions\/6211\/revisions\/6866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"disciplines","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/disciplines?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"paper_types","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/paper_types?post=6211"},{"taxonomy":"tagged","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goodacademic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tagged?post=6211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}