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Philosophy & the Meaning of Life
God
Reality
Truth
Self & Freedom
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The following is what kind of philosophical argument: Every event has its explanatory cause. Every human choice or action is an event. Therefore, every human choice or action has its explanatory cause.
What is a deductive argument.
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When classifying the French philosopher and Enlightenment thinker, Voltaire, in terms of his faith he self-admitedly fits into this category:
What is deism.
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This is the study of that which is most real.
What is ontology.
100
These are the two kinds of truth.
What are empirical truth and necessary truth.
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This is the self that is aware of itself.
What is the thinking self.
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This is a self-contradictory statement with a seemingly absurd conclusion based on apparently good arguments. For example: "God is all-powerful, so he could create a muntain so huge that even he could not move it."
What is a paradox.
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This word is used to decribe God as "beyond the ordinary world dof human experience, outside of ourselves and distinct from the world he created."
What is transcendent.
200
This is the attempt to say what reality is.
What is metaphysics
200
In his famous phrase, "tabula rosa," John Locke rejected the existence of these.
What are innate ideas.
200
This man coined the famous phrase, "Cogito ergo sum."
Who is Rene Descartes.
300
This Algerian born philosopher made the following nihilistic remark about the Myth of Sysiphus: "The struggle toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
Who is Albert Camus.
300
Saint Thomas Aquinas and Saint Anslem proposed two aguments in an attempt to prove the existence of God. This approach to faith can be defined using this word.
What is rational.
300
The 5 Greek metaphysicsts Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes, Hericlitus, and Democritus all fellinto this category of metaphysics that suggests that all reality is made up of physical entities.
What is materialism.
300
This theory of truth states that "the reasons for accepting a statement or a belief as true is whether it allows us to function better;... whether it works."
What is the Pragmatic Theory of Truth.
300
This is the view that all talk of mental events should be translated into talk about tendencies to act in certain ways.
What is behaviorism.
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Contrary to popular opinion, Sherlock Holmes relied primarilly on this type of philosophical reasoning.
What is induction.
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Humorously referred to as fire insurance, this argument is named after the French Philosopher who proposed it. It starts ike this: "If we believe in God and he exists, we will be rewarded with infinite bliss. If we believe in God but he doesn't exist, then the wrost that happens is that we have given up a few sinful pleasures that we might otherise have enjoyed."
What is Pascal's Wager.
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This German idealist believed that reality was made up of two worlds: the world of nature and the world of action and belief.
Who is Immanuel Kant.
400
Truth that is determined based upon an individual's conception or attitude towards an object is said to be this kind of truth.
What is subjective truth.
400
This is the final conclusion of the determinist dedutive argument.
What is "Therefore, no human choice or action is free.'"
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These are the 4 primary features of Philosophy.
What are: 1) Articulation 2) Argument 3) Analysis 4) Synthesis
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Pocahontas fits into religious framweork that describes God as completely immanent.
What is pantheism.
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Rene Descartes is incorerctly thought of by some as a dualist because he accepts the two basic substances mind & body. In actuality he is a pluralist because he includes this other substance.
What is God.
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When broken down into its latin roots, ἐπιστήμη & λόγος, the definition of this word is clear.
What is epistemology.
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The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle is used by this group of philosophers to debate their opponents.
Who are the interdetinists.