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What is Philosophy?
Rational Argumentation
Fallacies
Metaphysics
Terms
Phil of Religion
100
Literally means "The love of Wisdom"
What is Philosophy?
100
Philosophers analyze and construct _______ using philosophical reasoning. Syllogism: Usually contain 2 premises and a conclusion.
What is an Argument?
100
When you attack the person, not their argument...
What is Ad Hominem?
100

The main focus of Metaphysics is...

reality, what its made of etc...

100
The study of reality; what is real...
What is Metaphysics?
100

These people don't know if God exists or not...

What are Agnostics?

200

Name the "Big Three" in Philosophy in the order of oldest to youngest.

Who are Socrates, Plato and Aristotle?

200
When the form of the argument is correct...
What is Valid, Validity?
200
Misrepresenting someone's argument to make it easier to attack...
What is The Straw-man Fallacy?
200
Reality is fundamentally mental, mentally constructed or otherwise immaterial...
What is Idealism?
200
The metaphysical belief in two substances to the universe; ex. mind and body...
What is Dualism?
200

The argument that the universe had a first cause...

What is the Kalam Cosmological Argument?

300
The study of reasoning through sets of principles; ordered reasoning...
What is Logic?
300
When both the form is correct AND there is real-world truth value, we call it a _______ argument.
What is sound?
300
In a _______ argument, a course of action is rejected because, with little or no evidence, one insists that it will lead to a chain reaction resulting in an undesirable end or ends.
What is Slippery Slope?
300

Aristotle's 4 Causes

What are material, formal, efficient and final?

300

Descartes argument saying that we might not be experiencing actual reality because our brains might be hooked up to a simulation...

What is the Brain-in-a-vat argument?

300

The difference between dependent and self-existing beings...

Dependent beings depend on other beings for their existence, and self-existing beings do no depend on anything.

400
The study of how we ought to live; Asks, "What is right, what is wrong?
What is Ethics?
400
A _______ occurs when there is faulty reasoning in an argument which makes it invalid or unsound; It fails as an argument.
What is Fallacy?
400
Saying that a compromise or middle point between two extremes is the truth.
What is the Middle Ground fallacy?
400
Aristotelian Hylomorphism is a combination of which two ideas?
What is Form and Substance (or matter)?
400

What are the Cartesian arguments that we studied so far?

What are The Dream argument, the Deceiving God argument and the Brain-in-a-vat argument.

400

These are people that combine the Bible with science, and believe all the answers of the universe are found strictly within a literal interpretation of the bible...

Who are Creationists?

500
Plato's story that talks about ascending our ignorance; It has metaphors of duality and explains what the search for wisdom is...
What is The Allegory of The Cave?
500

What type of argument has two premises and one conclusion - what is that called?

What is a Syllogism?

500
Bob argued with his friends that The Spurs have at least 10 Championship titles in the NBA. Chuck (who is an avid and informed Spurs fan) said they have 5. Bill, the peacemaker said, "let's just say they have 7 and move on..." Bill issued an example of what type of fallacy?
What is the Middle-ground fallacy?
500

This is considered the modern brain-in-a-vat argument, but updated to contemporary conditions...

What is simulation theory?

500
FOR PLATO IT WAS THE TRANSCENDENT, IDEAL REPRESENTATION OF AN OBJECT IN THE PHYSICAL WORLD; FOR ARISTOTLE IT WAS THE BOUNDARY TO AN OBJECT'S SUBSTANCE.
What is Form?
500

These are the three characteristics of God according to the Problem of evil, at which they are not compatible with suffering in the world...

What are omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent?