What Philosophers Say
R & L #2
Philosophers' Ideas
Terms
Latin
100
Descartes says about "thinking" & "existence," "cogito ergo sum," which means...
What is "I think therefore I am"?
100
Misrepresenting an argument results in what type of fallacy?
What is Straw Man?
100
Bentham believed, from his Consequentialist perspective, in the greatest good for...
What is "...the greatest number"?
100
The notion that God coexists with the world, that God is not anthropomorphic.
What is Pantheism?
100
tabula rasa
What is "blank slate"
200
Sartre says that there is no meaning except the meaning...
What is "the meaning we make ourselves"?
200
A type of argument that, based on true premises, presents a "probably true" conclusion.
What is Induction?
200
About beauty, Plato believed it is perfect ___________.
What is unity?
200
The notion that we are governed by free will.
What is Libertarianism?
200
cogito ergo sum
What is "I think therefore I am"?
300
The three questions Kant says all Philosophy should be directed at:
What are What can we know? What can we do? What can we hope?
300
What is the term that refers to this idea: "A conclusion that must be true given that the premises are true."
What is Logically Entailed?
300
Parmenides believed what about reality? Name two of the four ideas.
What is timeless, motionless, uniform, and indivisible?
300
The ethical moral grounding connected to science & reason.
What is Rationalistic?
300
esse est percipi
What is "to be is to be perceived"?
400
Marcus Aurelius said that "the beauty of a thing exists regardless of...
What are "praise" or "criticism"?
400
The following is an example of what type of fallacy: "Lying is wrong and because it is wrong it is also unforgivably immoral. Sneath lied to his kids about the existence of Santa Claus. Therefore, Sneath is unforgivably immoral."
What is Accident?
400
A subterranean story about reality.
What is Plato's Allegory of the Cave?
400
The idea that we cannot know for certain that God exists or that God does not exist.
What is Agnosticism?
400
a priori
What is "knowledge which comes before"?
500
Who said "You cannot step in the same river twice"?
Who is Heraclitus?
500
Argumentatem ad Vericundiam is Latin for what fallacy?
What is "Appeal to Authority"?
500
Kant refers to the way things are in themselves--the way they are outside our perception and conception--as the ________________ Realm.
What is the "Noumenal"?
500
"The chain of causes would go infinitely into the past unless there was something to cause the first thing" is a central part of what argument?
What is the "Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God"?
500
Pulcra sunt quae visa placent
What is "Beauty is that which pleases the eye"?