0. Key words/ key people Flashcards
empiricism
knowledge through sense experience
logic
knowledge through reasoning
a posteriori
knowlege gained from sense experience
a priori
knowledge gained from reason rather than sense experience
synthetic
knowledge conditional on sense experience
analytic
knowledge based on reason alone
inductive
argument using evidence to lead to probable conclusion
deductive
an argument that is known to be true if the premises are true
cognitive
meaningful as a result of knowledge
non cognitive
not logically meaningful, subjective
univocal
a word has same meaning when applied to different things
equivocal
same word means entirely different thing when applied to object
apophatic
view we can’t speak of god in positive terms as language is finite and is a gross misrepresentation of God leading to anthropomorphism
kataphatic
we can speak of God meaningfully in positive terms
analogical
word is used by comparison to something similar