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📌 Philosophy, science, and religion all begin with questioning but differ in method: philosophy uses logic, reflection, and argumentation; science uses observation and experimentation; and religion uses belief, religious texts, family, and tradition.
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📌 Philosophy treats truth as modifiable through reflection and improvement, science treats truth as existing and revisable through experimentation, and religion treats truth as fixed with interpretation that may be more or less fixed.
Philosophy reasons, science experiments, religion believes.
1. Which method best distinguishes philosophy from science and religion?
2. How does the treatment of truth differ among philosophy, science, and religion?
3. What is a concept?
How does philosophy differ in method from science and religion?
Philosophy uses logic, reflection, and argumentation.
How does science treat the concept of truth?
Science treats truth as existing and revisable through experimentation.
What is a concept in mental representation?
A concept groups ideas and phenomena into a category sharing characteristics.
How does a universal concept differ from a particular concept?
A universal concept applies without exception to all in a category, a particular concept concerns one being or situation at a moment.
Philosophy, Science, Religion | Method
Logic, reflection, experimentation, belief, tradition
Truth in Philosophy, Science, Religion
Modifiable, revisable, fixed
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