Traditionally, philosophy includes at least four core fields or disciplines:
1. ontology
2. epistemology
3. ethics
4. logic
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1. Ontology - study of beings or their being — what is
2. Epistemology - study of knowledge — how we know
3. Logic - study of valid reasoning - how to reason
4. Ethics -study of right and wrong — how we should act
5. Phenomenology - study of our experience — how we experience
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⁃ Socrates and Plato put ethics first
⁃ Aristotle put metaphysics or ontology first
⁃ Descartes put epistemology first
⁃ Russell put logic first
⁃ Husserl (in his later transcendental phase) put phenomenology first
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