What are the three main methods of philosophy?

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And what is involved in applying each of them?

None of the seven answers offered here so far is anywhere near satisfactory. They either address a different question than the one that was asked, or show little familiarity with philosophy, or fail to expand on the few words they contain.

Six answers, I meant.

Answer 1

I think you question might be supposing a specific context. Philosophy has many different methods.

I would in fact define philosophy as the search for methods to answer questions which cannot be answered through other means such as science, math, and the humanities.

In a genuine sense all of these areas derived from philosophy. Pythagoras, Aristotle, Galileo, Newton, James, and so forth were philosophers whose methods originated, respectively in order, the methods of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and psychology, just to name a few. (For example, Newton's work on motion was titled Principles of Natural Philosophy. Dalton's work in chemistry was titled Principles of Chemical Philosophy.)

As soon as definite knowledge concerning any subject becomes possible, this subject draws its own skilled practitioners. The subject leaves philosophy and becomes a science.

What you might be asking is what used to be termed the three theories of truth which are used to evaluate what is known. These three theoies have been shown in the last thirty years or so to be an oversimplification, but they are still taught in philosophy courses.

These theories are the correspondence, coherence, and the pragmatic theories of truth:
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Correspondence Theory of Truth: this criterion claims that an idea that accords with its object must be true. In other words, a statement is true, if it expresses what is the case.

1. To say that something is true is to say that there is a correspondence between it and a fact.

2. For example, "It is raining here, now" is true if it is the case that it is raining here now; otherwise it is false.

3. The nature of the relation of correspondence between a fact and a true proposition is described differently by different writers.

The controversial features are due mainly to the different interoperations of the key words, "fact" and "statement."

4. One main difficulty is finding what corresponds to a false statement or a nonreferring statement such as "The present king of France is bald."
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Coherence theory of truth: this criterion is used to ascertain whether the individual statements that comprise a belief are rationally and consistently interrelated. (A criterion used by Leibniz and Spinoza, and Bradley).

1. To say that what is said is true or false is to say that what is said is consistent with or is not consistent with a system of other things which are said.

A statement is true if it is a part of a system of statements each of which are related to each other by logical implication (e.g., Euclid's geometry).

2. Hence a statement is true insofar as it is a necessary part of a systematically coherent set of statements. Thus, truth is a property of an extensive body of consistent propositions.

3. An unusual feature is the doctrine of the degrees of truth: if the truth of an given statement is bound up with, and can only be seen with the truth of all the statements in the system, individual statements as such are only partly true--only the whole system is said to be true.
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Pragmatism: the criterion that tests beliefs by their results when put into operation, a criterion supported by Peirce, James, and Dewey.

1. A statement is thought to be true insofar as it works or satisfies or fulfills its function.

2. Working or satisfying or functioning is described differently by different people. One attends to the practical consequences of ideas.

3. Peirce wrote, "In order to ascertain the meaning of an intellectual conception, one should consider what practical consequences might conceivably result by necessity from the truth of that conception; and the sum of these consequences will constitute the entire meaning of the expression."

4. The pragmatists reduced the notion of being truth to that of being accepted as true or even to that of being tested for truth.

Answer 2

1. Revelation
2. Revolution
3. Orthodoxy

1. Is the discovery and the writing of the philosopher- his/her theories, usually against a backdrop of lack of recognition, general apathy.

2. Is the revolution that occurs, usually long after the philosopher is dead.

3. is the orthodoxy that emerges around any philosophy after a revolution, which makes further edit/change difficult.

Answer 3

Three main methods of philosophy have been the Ancient Greek, epistemic and linguistic approaches.
{and to have to loose 5 point to get the second answer. lol}

Answer 4

Ethos Pathos and Logos

Answer 5

Live and let live.
Forgive and forget.
Be good and do good.

It all explains itself. Philosophy differs from person to person and it depends on how people apply it in their lives.

Answer 6

1. Do not accept anyone
2. Do not deny anyone
3. Apply your own mind

Answer 7

i inqiure-2 similarity 3--verfaction

Answer 8

1.Copying others
2.Converting others
3.Generating and following new one

Answer 9

I agree with viv......