Vocabulary I
That which corresponds to what is real.
What is Truth?
5 ways to know the truth from Ch. 2.
What is Science, Authority, Intuition, Logic & Testimony?
Also accept: inductive reasoning
A proposed explanation of some observed reality that forms the basis for further investigation and experimentation to either prove or falsify the claim.
What is Hypothesis?
Edith Stein was born into this faith and converted to another faith. (2 answers)
What is Jewish and then Catholic?
(She became a Carmelite nun)
Something we can grasp by use of our five senses.
What is Sensible Reality?
The process of investigation into reality through observation and experiment.
What is Science?
First person accounts of those who were at an event from the past, also made in a court of law.
What is testimony of others?
The powers of the mind or intellect, to know and understand through the process of logic.
What is Reason?
Edith Stein died at this place in 1942.
What is Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp?
A word from the Greek which means, "love of Wisdom."
What is Philosophia?
True understanding of a certain reality or realities. When what we think with our mind corresponds to what is real.
What is Knowledge?
Examples of this are loving parents, government officials, or teachers.
What is an authority figure?
The reality that truth describes. It is a reality that exists independent and regardless of one's feelings, preferences or even knowledge of it.
What is objective reality?
Edith Stein read a book by this person and declared that the content of the book was the truth.
Who is St. Teresa of Avila?
The study of God based on Divine Revelation.
What is Theology?
A logical process that draws a probable conclusion based on particular evidence.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
Another way we can look into ourselves to recognize God's existence.
What is the natural law or innate sense of right and wrong/ good and evil in us all?
It is the study of ultimate reality and its causes by human reason alone.
What is Philosophy?
Edith Stein contributed to the Church in these two ways.
What is a philosopher (helped to understand St. Thomas Aquinas) and she led a holy life (never abandoning her faith, even unto death?)
The ability to immediately understand something, often by "gut" feeling or by instinct, without needing to think about it.
What is Intuition?
A point of view arising from one's own thoughts, feelings, perceptions, and knowledge.
What is Subjective Opinion?
We can also come to the knowledge of God through this.
What is Faith?
A branch of philosophy that studies the moral quality of human nature, what leads to human happiness and flourishing and what harms us.
What is Ethics?
These are two arguments made for the existence of God in Ch. 2.
What are the First Cause and the Intelligent Design arguments?
Something that is knowable and understandable.
What is Intelligible?