Divinity key words Flashcards
Define Empiricism
The philosophical view that all human knowledge is ultimately based on experience
Define the correspondence theory of truth
The idea that what makes something true is that it mirrors reality
What is meant by objective
A word that philosophers use that means something is independent from a person
Rhetoric means ….
Language used to try and persuade
What is meant by the word subjective in philosophy
Dependent on a person
Their judgment
Humes law is the argument that …
Ought statements cannot be derived from if statements
It ought to be raining cannot be derived from it is raining
What could be meant by propaganda
Trying to convince someone that an argument is good/bad
What is meant by the word scepticism
And what were the two main schools of scepticism in Greece
The habit of doubting the truth of something
Academic scepticism
Pyrrhonian scepticism
Define, the two kinds of scepticism in Ancient Greece
A. Scepticism - belief that knowledge gained from the senses was unreliable and couldn’t be trusted
P. Scepticism - doubting any claims about the world were possible
Epistemology what is it
The area of philosophy interested in what can be known/how we know what we know
Natural theology
Belief that we can know god through the natural world
Revealed theology
The argument that we can know god through what he reveals to us about himself
Theism
Belief that god exists
Atheism
Opposit to theism
Belief that god does not exist
Agnosticism is…
Belief either that god cannot be proved or disproved or a state of uncertainty to whether god exists
