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Philosophy On Philosophy

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“ Philosophy?”. “Sounds fun. I’m excited to start learning PHILOSOPHY!”.
That was my first thought of Philosophy. I don’t really know what exactly will I learn in Philosophy. I had this own understanding that Philosophy is the same as Psychology. But after my first Philosophy class, then I know that Psychology is the study of mental processes and behavior and that Philosophy is the love for wisdom. Hearing wisdom, I was quite sure that it was the love for knowledge. But again, I was dejected because my lecturer said that wisdom is not the same as knowledge. Wisdom is the element of personal character that enables someone to distinguish the wise from the unwise. It is the art of thinking.
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Red Herring is when the topic or issue discussed is smoked screen by another or new not related topic or issue that in return leads to the abandoning of the original topic. This tactic is used to distract the attention from the original topic that lead towards a false conclusion.
Next, the school of thought in epistemology. Epistemology means the origin of knowledge. Is the origin of knowledge derived from divine inspiration? Or is it derived from our brain capacity? Those are the mystery of life that even the philosophers do not have the answer for. But the philosophers, they do have some logical arguments which are separated to two schools of thought in epistemology.
The first one is rationalism. Rationalism is more neutralized because it is derived from religious based knowledge or ‘A Priori’. It is knowledge that you get from religious activity or inspiration that you cannot explain from logical perspectives. A Priori also believes that humans are born with a buried knowledge about the world inside the mind and that the brain is just acting as the mechanism. Those who assert that by reason alone can discover knowledge. The agent of A Priori is innate ideas - the buried knowledge in the mind.

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