What is the problem-fallacy of equivocation

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Instructions: Please note that the questions below are based on the Unit readings and are intended to be both an outline of the units' material and the basis for your Unit Assessment, so please give your best effort to answering them thoroughly. The task is to respond to the 15 questions below. Each question will be worth 2 points.
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How does one know what the good life is? - The good life is...

1. What is Metaphysics? List some Metaphysical questions, at least four.

2. What is the problem/fallacy of equivocation?

3. According to the reading, what are the three different meanings given to the term reality? Give examples of each one (Reality 1, Reality 2, Reality3).

4. In what way did the American Pragmatist Charles Sanders Peirce wished to distinguish himself from other pragmatistsconcerning his understanding of reality?

5. What does the text mean when it says; we should not accept that there are multiple realities1?

6. What does traditional metaphysics refer to? And, what does it mean to call one a metaphysician in the traditional philosophical sense?

7. Define Popular Metaphysics. What two traditional areas of study does it relate to?

8. What are the subdivisions of metaphysics? What specific questions do they raise?

9. What is metaphysical materialism? What is idealism?

10. Who was George Berkeley? What were the details of his immaterialist ontology?

11. List and briefly describe the three forms of idealism highlighted in your reading.

12. What is meant by a dualistic perception of reality?

13. What is Existentialism? What is the existential approach to explaining reality?

14. What is Pragmatism? How do pragmatists explain reality?

15. What is Postmodernism? What is the postmodernists' metaphysical view of reality?

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