Belief

Question 1

BLANK - that is, a responsibility we have regarding our beliefs.

Answer 1

Epistemic Responsibility

Question 2

BLANK - when you are considering a belief that you could actually see yourself having.

Answer 2

Live Option

Question 3

BLANK - when you are considering a belief that you couldnt actually see yourself having.

Answer 3

Dead Option

Question 4

BLANK - when you forced to make a choice. ‘Stay in or go out,’ is a good example of a forced option.

Answer 4

Forced Option

Question 5

BLANK - when you are not forced to make a choice. If I let you pick peanut butter or ham and cheese, you can always just decide to have neither.

Answer 5

Unforced Option

Question 6

A BLANK is one that, if you choose it, stands the chance of radically changing your life for the better.

Answer 6

momentous option

Question 7

BLANK - a choice that won’t radically change your life.

Answer 7

Trivial Option

Question 8

BLANK - is based on the theory that finding true beliefs is less important than finding beliefs that work, practically, in the living of your life.

Answer 8

Pragmatism

Question 9

This reasoning became known as BLANK , and it’s really a gambler’s argument for religious belief.

Answer 9

Pascal’s Wager

Question 10

But BLANK , the 19th-century Danish philosopher, went even further. He adopted the famous tenant of fideism, stating: “I believe because it is absurd to believe.”

Answer 10

Soren Kierkegaard

Question 11

BLANK - is the school of thought that says religious belief has to come from faith alone.

Answer 11

Fideism

Question 12

Kierkegaard said that the fantastic thing about belief in God is that it’s entirely irrational – you can’t do it with your brain. You have to take what he called the BLANK

Answer 12

leap to faith