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1		The branch of philosophy that asks fundamental questions about the nature and source of knowledge, the concept of truth, and the objectivity or relativity of our beliefs is called


2		The Oracle at said that no one was wiser than Socrates.


3		In describing his philosophical function Socrates compared himself to a of ideas, suggesting that he wasn't giving birth to ideas but simply helping others to do so.


4		Plato referred to the Socratic method of questioning as which comes from the Greek word for conversation.


5		The were traveling educators during Socrates' day who would offer practical courses for a fee and who taught the doctrine of skepticism.


6		The Allegory of the is the name of a famous story in Plato's Republic that tells of chained prisoners watching shadows on the wall.


7		If you makes two assertions that could not both be true under any possible circumstances you're guilty of logical


8		The statement in an argument that the premises are claimed to support or imply is the of the argument.


9		A argument is one in which the author claims that the conclusion necessarily follows from the premises.


10		The technical name for a valid argument with all true premises is a argument.

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