 | Chapter Objectives
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After reading this chapter, you should be able to
- identify the various branches of philosophy.
- describe a number of basic philosophical problems.
- distinguish necessary from sufficient conditions, and logical from causal possibility.
- identify and evaluate different types of arguments.
- recognize informal logical fallacies.
- use the criteria of adequacy to evaluate hypotheses.
- test theories by performing thought experiments.
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