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Who is William James
Who wrote Varieties of Religious Experience, a book about Mystics & there experience with divine experience.
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The Mystics
Who claims to know God through there experience with his divine presence
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Religion can be grouped into how many families? then name those families
What is three. 1. Monotheistic: One God 2. Polytheistic: Many Gods 3. Pantheistic: Everything is God
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St.Anselm
Who said “For it is one thing for an object to be in the understanding, and another to understand that the object exists.”
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Contingent
A tree is the example of what kind of existence?
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Immanuel Kant
Who admits to the possibility to make analytically true statements about God. Thinks like God is all-powerful.
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A priori
What knowledge is gained through experience
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The task of philosophy of religion is to do what?
What is analyze.
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Spinoza
Who wrote "The Ethics"
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Leibniz
Who was a close contemporary rationalist to Spinoza?
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Baruch Spinoza
Who has two reasons for things non-existence 1)The thing is prevented from existing by something external to it. 2)Something doesn’t exist because its nature is internally inconsistent
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A posteriori
What is knowledge gained from sense or experience
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Ancient texts Archeological examination Primitive people Are all categorized as what?
What is "The ways of the Scholarly"
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Leibniz
Who argued that God only exists if God is possible
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This philosopher believes that, existence is not a perfection (or a quality or a real predicate), and that can be added to a concept to change the concept in any way
Who is Immanuel Kant
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St. Anselm
A God who exists only in thought is not “real” SO A God that existed in reality & thought would be greater.
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Contingent Existence
What is that which exists contingently depends on something for its existence, can be conceived not to exist without contradiction
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Who argued that what is known about God by reason and through sacred scripture makes two paths that make up our understanding of God?
Thomas Aquinas
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predicate
In dealing with reality what is the term for something done by the subject (the person or thing being discussed)?
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What is the term for this definition: It says that reality is fully intelligible, that is, there is nothing True of the universe for which a full rational explanation is not possible
What is the Principle of Sufficient Reason
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St. Anselm
Who said there can truly be a greater being (God) which nothing greater can be concluded to exist.
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Ontological Analysis
What is a Greek word for being; or the analysis of nature or being something. It can also be used as a synonym for metaphysics.
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Name one of the five things Philosophy of religion is concerned with clarifying?
What is The concept of God Trying to remove alleged inconsistencies in religious beliefs Probing the grounds of religious knowledge Examining the problems of religious language Looking at the question of the nature of religion
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Analytic Statement
What is a claim that one cannot predicate without contradicting themselves.
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When a car doesn’t start, we think that a dead battery or an empty gas tank may be the reason. Even if we cant figure out why it wont start, we don believe there is no reason, simply that we could figure out why. Is an example of what
What is Principle of Sufficient Reason