Logic and Argument
A group of statements in which the conclusion is claimed to follow from the premises
what is an argument?
A belief in a god-roughly an omincient, ominpotent, omnibenevolent
what is Theism
the thesis that the only things that exist are physical things | the view that the human person is entirely physical
what is Physicalism
A study that asks two questions, what it takes to know something, and what is the difference between knowledge and belief
what is Epistemology
what is consequentialism
An argument in which the conclusion follows from the premises
what is validity
an a priori style of argument for god's existence from necessity.
what is an ontological argument
the thesis that both physical and non-physical (spiritual, immaterial) things exist | the view that human person has both soul and body
what is dualism
Argument and typical function
what are the two types of justifications
Determines what makes an act good
What is normative ethics
An argument in which the conclusion follows from the premises and the premises are correct
What is soundness
an a posteriori style of argument for God's existence from motion or change
what is a cosmological argument
the view that the mind and the brain are the same thing
what is Mind-Brain Identity Theory
what is Rationalism
Determines what is good/moral
What are Deontology and Consequentialism
A deductive argument with suppressed premises; an assumption that must be true for a successful argument, which is not explicitly stated
what is enthymeme
Who has the most popular and original ontological argument
who is Anselm
the view that the mind or thinking is a function of the brain in the way that digestion is a function of the stomach
what is functionalism
Knowledge found by testing the physical world/sense experience
what is Empiricism
The main contriubtor to the philosophy of deontology in ethics
Who is Emmanuel Kant
A classmate who is unhelpful to his peers in their groups
what is Hrothgar
A big round brown root veggie
What is a rutabaga
the view that freedom (and, hence, moral responsibility) requires the principle of alternative possibilities or the ability to have done otherwise
what is Libertarianism
Parts of the regulative world view
What are Theological, Cosmological, Psychological
What is Complementarianism