Morton's Final

wtf is this class

Ambiguity

uncertainty between between 2 or more equally valid interpretations

Data

things that are given without regard to what it’s about

Fact

interpretation of data

Logic

how things hang together

Genre

horizon of expectation

Generic Fact

automatic fact

Record Store

our experience of anything is shaped by our built-in, inherited “genre expectations”

Hermeneutic Circle

circle of interpretation

Phenomenology

how appearances hang together

Logical Argument

valid and sound

Valid

structure of argument hangs together well

Sound

evidence/premises are true

Ontology

how existing hangs together

Metaphysics of presence

some things exist more than others because of their presence

Reductionism

small things are more real than big things

Apophenia

seeing patterns that aren’t there

Pareidolia

seeing faces that aren’t there

Hume (Skeptical Empiricism)

whatever you say about your sensory data will be incomplete or flawed

Skeptical

whatever comes out of my mouth will be incomplete/flawed

Empiricism

can only rely on sense to gather data

Kant (Transcendental Idealism)

all we ever experience is reality as it appears through the structures of our mind but we can never actually point to the “real” world

Transcendental

can’t point to it

Idealism

reality is shaped by the mind

Transcendental Idealist

you can’t experience the world as it is, only as your mind structures it

Critique (Kantian)

investigation into how our mind makes experience possible

Intuition

immediate sensible givenness of an object

Synthetic Judgment a priori

new knowledge you can know before experience

Synthetic

adds new information/knowledge

Judgment

something that just pops inside of you

A priori

statements true independent of experience

Irony

feeling of contradiction

Types of Irony

proleptic, romantic, dramatic

Dialetheia

things that are true and false at the same time

Dialetheic Sentence (be able to explain why)

This statement is false

Stochastic

randomly determined

Terrorism

creating a reign of terror

Interpellation

reading IN to something

Normotic

evacuating your inner space to adhere to conventional/normal behaviors

Beauty

feeling of truth