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not valid…

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invalid

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study of knowledge

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epistemology

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theory of reality…

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metaphysics

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understanding an idea by distinguishing… clarifying… components

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analysis

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a trivially true statement

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tautology

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form of argument… one refutes a statement… leads to absurdity.

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reductive ad absurdum

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study of formal structures…

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logic

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ideas in clear, concise,… language

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articulation

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knowledge before experience…

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a priori knowledge

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an invalid argument…

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fallacies

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study of formal structures…

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ontology

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statement that is accepted from the start of an argument…

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premises

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argument aimed at the individual

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ad hominem

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supporting your ideas with reasons from other ideas

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argument

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an argument that correctly follows agreed-upon rules of inference

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valid

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assuming the truth of the point at issue in a question

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begging the question

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basic units

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concepts

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the end of an argument

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conclusion

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guarantees the truth of the conclusion, if the premises are true

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deductive logic

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knowledge based on experience

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empirical knowledge

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philosophical study of religion

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philosophy of religion

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kind of deductive reasoning

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syllogisms

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gathering… different ideas… single unified version

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synthesis

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self contradictory or seemingly absurd conclusion

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paradox

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does not guarantee the truth of the conclusion

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inductive logic

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a religion that stresses the unity of life and the ideal of being at one with the cosmos

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hinduism

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belief in god

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theism

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a belief in something in which you have… -a rational belief in God

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faith

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independent of… a God who is distinct and separate from the universe he created

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transcendent

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the belief that everything is God

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pantheism

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buddhism that stresses the importance of meditation and teaching

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zen buddhism

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an argument to prove God’s existence based on a first cause.

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cosmological argument

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a person who believes that we cannot know whether God exists or does not exist

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agnostic

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belief in many gods and goddesses

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polytheism

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all-knowing, usually said of God

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omniscient

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God defined as within the world and in the human spirit…

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Immanent (God)

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A movement in the 18th century… rejected the churches authority…

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enlightenment

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the belief in one God

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monotheism

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the belief that there is no God

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atheism

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human like

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anthropomorphic

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all-powerful, usually said of God

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omnipotent

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an argument that tries to prove the existence of God from the very concept of “god”

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ontological argument

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a binding obligation formed voluntarily

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commitment

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a religion… that teaches that suffering is the universal condition of human existence

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Buddhism

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A person who does not believe in God

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atheist

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an argument that attempts to prove that God exists because of the intricacy and design of nature.

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argument from design (for God’s existence)

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the refusal to believe either that God exists or that he does not exist.

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agnosticism

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the dilemma… trying to reconcile that God is omnipotent, omniscient and just with the suffering and evil in the world

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problem of evil

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a belief that God exists to create the universe, but does not intervene…

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deism

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in Kierkegaard, believing on faith what one cannot prove

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leap of faith

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Socrates based his philosophy on the need to…

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know yourself and live the examined life

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a set of ideas about the nature of society and our political roles within it…

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ideology

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a way of seeing the world, a way of understanding the “larger perspective”

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world view

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plato was

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a student of Socrates

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Aristotle was

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a student of Plato

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the study of good and bad, right and wrong,… the defense of the principles of morality

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ethics

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arguments are neither true or false, they are

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valid or invalid

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truth and falsity apply to…

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statements, not arguments

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statements so obviously true that they need not be proved at all are called

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axioms

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all, every, only, none, or no one are all words that form

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inductive arguments

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inductive arguments are not valid or invalid, they are

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strong or weak

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if the conclusions of of different arguments within a philosophy contradict one another, that philosophy is

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inconsistent

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Basing on argument simply on the opinions of someone in authority…

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Argument from authority

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if someone believes in God, we must know which…

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conception they believe in

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a famous defender of pantheism…

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Benedict (Baruch) Spinoza

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The conception of God as spirit was defended by

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Hegel

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The Old Testament shows God as

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a giver of laws

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In the New Testament, God is depicted as

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a caring, Divine Judge

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punishing the person who deserves it not someone else…

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justice

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philosopher who defended the cosmological argument

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Saint Thomas Aquinas

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philosopher who defended the teleological argument

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William Paley

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Philosopher who defended the ontological argument…

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Saint Anslem

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Philosopher who believed in Rational faith…

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Immanual Kant

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Philosopher famous for setting up a betting situation related to God’s existence

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Blaise Pascal

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Philosopher who believed in irrational faith…

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Kierkegaard

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