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GST 212 Philosophy, Logic and Human Existence

200 levelGeneral Studies11 topics

GST 212 covers 11 topics. StudyPath paces them into daily study sessions that finish before your exam date, with practice questions and worked answers for each one.

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Course outline

The topics this course covers, in teaching order.

  1. Scope of philosophy: notions, meanings and branches
  2. Problems of philosophy
  3. Logic as an indispensable tool of philosophy
  4. Elements of syllogism
  5. Symbolic logic and the first nine rules of inference
  6. Informal fallacies
  7. Laws of thought and the nature of arguments
  8. Valid and invalid arguments; deduction, induction and inference
  9. Creative and critical thinking
  10. Impact of philosophy on human existence
  11. Philosophy and politics, human conduct, religion and science

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Scope of philosophy: notions, meanings and branches

This topic introduces philosophy as a disciplined search for wisdom, clear thinking, and rational understanding of reality, knowledge, and human life. For exams, you must know the main notions and meanings of philosophy and be able to distinguish its major branches, since questions often test definitions, scope, and what each branch studies.

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