Philosophy (Insight)

Insight

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is a kind of seeing with the mind.

Visual, Auditory, Read, Write, and Kinaesthetic.

4 predominant learning styles:

To philosophize

is to think philosophically or just to think deeply and reflectively.

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Conceptual Analysis

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Metaphor

Two ways of what we can do with our insight:

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Conceptual analysis

in practice concerns distinguishing terms, analysing the understandings they refer to, and representing this.

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metaphor

is a figure of speech that describes an object or action in a way that isn't literally true, but helps explain an idea or make a comparison.

weaving a myth

other techniques can be used such us for instance the important technique of ______ to embody our insight.

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Empedocles

lead the way out of the tangle that Parmenides and Heraclitus had gotten themselves into.

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Anaxagoras (500-428 B.C.)

was another philosopher who could not agree that one particular basic substance was water, for instance might be transformed into everything we see in the natural world. Nor could he accept that earth, air, fire, and water can be transformed into blood and bone.

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Anaxagoras

held that nature is built up of an infinite number of minute particles invisible to the eye.

minuscule particles

Moreover, everything can be divided into even smaller parts, but even in the minutest parts there are fragments of all other things. Anaxagoras called these ______ which have something of everything in them, like a seed.

force mind or intelligence

Remember that Empedocles thought that it was love that joined the elements together in whole bodies. Anaxagoras also imagined order as a kind of force, creating animals and humans, flowers and trees. He called this

anaxagoras

He believed that all heavenly bodies were made of the same substance as Earth. He reached this conclusion after studying a meteorite.