Absurdism
The main proponent of absurdism we have studied so far.
Who is Albert Camus?
These 3 things can't objectively exist if God doesn't exist.
What are meaning, value, and purpose?
The name of the argument that concludes that the universe has a cause.
What is The Kalam Cosmological Argument?
The fallacy that weakens an opponent's argument to make it easier to counter.
What is the Straw Man fallacy?
The meaning of the symbol that consists of three dots in a triangle.
What is therefore?
The conflict between humanity's search for meaning and a meaningless world.
What is The Absurd?
What awaits after death if God does not exist.
What is nothing?
Concepts proposed by Leibniz to differentiate between things whose existence depend on others vs. their own nature.
What is Contingent vs. Necessary?
The play in which is quoted, "Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more..."
What is Macbeth?
The type of argument: if P, then Q; P; therefore Q.
What is Modus Ponens?
The character that represents the idea of the absurd in one of Camus' texts.
Who is Sisyphus?
This book of the Bible addresses the meaninglessness of life without hope in God.
The Persian Philosopher who popularized the Kalam Cosmological Argument.
Who is Al-Ghazali?
The fallacy that assumes correlation = causation.
What is post hoc ergo propter hoc (false cause)?
The type of argument where if the premises are true, the conclusion is true.
What is a deductive argument?
What Camus considers philosophical suicide.
What is appealing toward something beyond rationality, or running to a meaning-giving idea?
According to Craig's MVP, ultimate meaning requires this.
What is an objective purpose or moral standard?
The idea that Hilbert's Hotel tried to illustrate.
The class activity that illustrated an infinite regress.
What is "broken telephone" / "dominos"?
The type of argument: if P, then Q; not Q; therefore not P.
What is Modus Tollens?
The four options Camus identifies when faced with the absurd.
What is appeal, ignore, despair, and revolt?
According to Leibniz' contingency argument, the attributes of God.
What is extremely powerful, uncaused, necessarily existing, immaterial, eternal being, etc.?
A scientific discovery that points to the universe's origin.
What is redshift, Cosmic Microwave background radiation, or the Borde-Guth-Vilenkin theorem?
The person who popularized the "dialogue" as a form of philosophical expression.
Who is Plato?
The type of argument that eliminates all unlikely conclusions (inference to the best explanation).
What is an abductive argument?