Binmaley Catholic School, Inc.

Binmaley, Pangasinan
S.Y. 2020-2021

Name: ______________________________________ LRN: _____________________________

Grade and Section: ________________________ Score: ___________________________

Modular Activities
in
INTRODUCTION OF
PHILOSOPHY OF
THE HUMAN
PERSON
2 Semester
nd

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 ACTIVITY 1 : BRAINSTORMING

1. Direction: Choose a word from the variety of words below. Write down other related words or
ideas that you can think of in relation to the word that you chose and explain how are they related
to each other.

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ACTIVITY 2: FACTS OR OPINION

A. Tell whether the statement is an opinion or fact statement. Write your answer before each
number.
___________1. Bali tigers are extinct.
___________2. She looks sad.
___________3. The cake tastes delicious.
___________4. Sir Ian McKellan played Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit franchises.
___________5. My Philosophy teacher hates me.

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___________6. The capital of Ukraine is Kiev/Kyiv.
___________7. The third president of the United States was Thomas Jefferson.
___________8. The Mango Graham Cake tastes delicious.
___________9. King John of England signed the Magna Carta in 1215.
___________10. Online Class is boring

ACTIVITY 3: EVALUATE
Direction: Read the story/statements well to be able to comprehend it:
“Nothing matters more than knowing God ‘s purposes for your life, and nothing can compensate for not
knowing them — not success, wealth, fame, or pleasure. Without a purpose, life is motion without
meaning, activity without direction, and events without reason. Without a purpose, life is trivial, petty,
and pointless.”
Question:
1. Are the above statements factual or opinion? If yes, Why? If no, why not?
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ACTIVITY 4: COMPARE AND CONTRAST

A newspaper can be in a broadsheet or tabloid form. Compare and contrast the format in terms of
delivering and look for some examples to support your answer/s:
1. Factual News
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2. Editorial Opinion
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3. Gossip Columns
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ACTIVITY 5: THEORIES OF TRUTH

Directions: Identify the theory of truth which best characterizes the following descriptions:

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1. An idea that in accord with a fact is considered true, and one that is not is considered false.
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2. What is said is true if it is logically derivable from a system of other things that are said.
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3. A statement is true insofar as it is a necessary constituent of a systematic whole as in Euclidian

geometry.

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4. Truth can be known only when one knows the practical consequences which would result from the
truth of the expression, and these consequences are testable.

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5. A statement is not known to be true if the fact corresponding to the statement is not, in principle,
verifiable in some manner.

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6. You can never know something is true until you can set up a test for that truth. If you can't test it, you
can't know it.

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7. Truth is a property of an extensive body of interrelated statements; hence, statements have degrees of
truth and falsity.

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8. The truth of a belief is tested by its results when it is put into operation and has satisfactory results.

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9. You know "Snow is white" if and only if snow is white.

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10. The truth of the conclusion of an argument is logically derivable from the truth of its premises.

ACTIVITY 6: PROVING TRUTH CLAIMS

Direction: Assuming that all the statements given are true, prove the truthness using the following theory
of truth.
1. Correspondence Theory of Truth: “The apple is sitting on the table.”
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2. Coherence Theory of Truth: “The Pencil hit the ground.”

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3. Pragmatic Theory of Truth: “The Existence of Santa Claus”

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ACTIVITY 7: DEDUCTIVE OR INDUCTIVE ARGUMENT

Direction: identify the following arguments whether deductive or inductive. Write your answer on the
space before the number.
___________________1. Ray is a football player. All the other football players on the high school team weigh

more than 170 pounds. Therefore, Ray must weigh more than 170 pounds.

___________________2. This marble from the bag is black. Another marble from the bag is black. A third

marble from the bag is black. Therefore all the marbles in the bag are black.

___________________3. All men are mortal. Joe is a man. Therefore Joe is mortal.

___________________4. To get a Bachelor's degree at Illinois Sate University, a student must have 120 credits.

Sally has more than 130 credits. Therefore, Sally has a bachelor's degree.

___________________5. All cars have at least two doors.  A Ford Focus is a car, so the Ford Focus has at least

two doors. 

___________________6. My math teacher has blue eyes. My last math teacher had blue eyes. All math teachers

must have blue eyes.

___________________7. An apple a day keeps the doctor away. Peter eats an apple every day, therefore he

never gets sick.

___________________8. Two independent witnesses claimed Alex committed the murder. Alex's fingerprints

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 are the only ones on the murder weapon. Alex confessed to the crime. So, Alex

committed the murder.

___________________9. Mrs. Finkes talks about cows. Mrs. Finkes has cows. Mrs. Finkes must love cows.

__________________10. Snakes have similar DNA sequences to lizards. Both snakes and lizards have scales.

Snakes and lizards do not have eyelids. Snakes are related to lizards.

ACTIVITY 8: ESSAY
Direction: Make an essay using Phenomenological Method with a title: “Online Class”
“ONLINE CLASS”
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