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Exam 2 (philosophy) Flashcards

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The essential reality of a thing or things

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substances

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Everything that actually is, as opposed to what merely appears to be…

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reality

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The power of the mind that allows us to choose our own actions

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will

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In Leibniz, the simple immaterial substances that are the ultimate constituents of all reality.

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Monads

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In plato’s metaphysics, the world we live in..

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world of becoming

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the philosophy that demands that all knowledge… comes from experience

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empiricism

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a physical method, used extensively G.W.F. Hegel and Karl Marx, in which contradictions are played against one another to arrive at the truth.

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dialect

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the metaphysical view that only physical matter and its properties exist.

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Materialism

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the study of being

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ontology

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in plato’s metaphysics, the world of ideal forms, a world that is unchanging.

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world of being

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the view that life is no good and ultimately serves no purpose

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pessimism

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the metaphysical view that there is ultimately one substance, that all reality is one.

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Monism

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“worldview”…

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Weltanschauung

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word, reason, logic…

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logos (greek)

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The metaphysical view that there are many distinct substances in the universe.

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pluralism

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one of the smallest possible material bodies

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atoms

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“to be is to be perceived”

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subjective idealism

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the study of such questions as how the universe came into being…

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cosmology

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the belief that all phenomena have a purpose, end or goal.

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Teleology

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the structure of a thing, that which identifies it as a particular thing or kind of thing…

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Forms

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“before experience”…

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a priori

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the study of the most basic (or ‘first’) principles

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metaphysics

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in Hegel’s philosophy, the all-embracing idea that includes the entire universe and all of humanity.

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Spirit

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the metaphysical view that only minds and their ideas exist

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idealism

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the metaphysical view that accepts the existence of non material entities

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immaterialism

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the theory that a statement or belief is true if and only if it ‘coheres’ with a system of statements or beliefs

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coherence theory of truth

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ideas that we are born with

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innate ideas

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a statement that is false, but may not have been so

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contingent falsehood

29
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something that cannot be otherwise and cannot be imagined to be otherwise

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necessary truth

30
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truth independent of our personal opinions and demonstrably true to anyone.

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objective truth

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in traditional rationalism, a belief that can be justified solely by appeal to reason

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truth of reason

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a statement that is true because of the facts and knowable through experience

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empirical truth

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the theory that a statement of belief is true if and only if it ‘corresponds’ to the facts

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correspondence theory of truth

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the philosophy that is characterized by its confidence in reason and intuition in particular…

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rationalism

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an idea that might be said to be true for the person who believes it but possibly for no one else.

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subjective truth

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in Hume, an empirical claim, to be confirmed or falsified through experience.

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matter of fact

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the study of human knowledge…

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epistemology

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a true statement that could have been otherwise

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contingent truth

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the philosophical belief that knowledge is not possible

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skepticism

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the theory that a statement or belief is true if and only if it works.

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pragmatic theory of truth

41
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who believed reality is ultimately water?

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Thales

42
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Who believed reality is indefinite ‘stuff’

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Anaximander

43
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who believed that reality is essentially air?

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Anaximenes

44
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Who believed reality is like fire?

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Heraclitus

45
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who believed that reality consists of tiny atoms

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Democritus

46
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Who believed reality is ultimately numbers

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Pythagoras

47
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Who believed reality is unchanging and unknown to us

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Parmenides

48
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Who believed reality is unchanging and motion is unreal? (paradox of the arrow)

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Zeno of Elea

49
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Who believed that reality is change but with an underlying logos, or logic?

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Heraclitus

50
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What are the three views of the mind?

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Minds are…

1) … one kind of substance
2) … part of a substance
3) … the only substance

51
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Who believed minds are one kind of substance?

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Descartes

52
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who believed that minds are part of a substance

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Spinoza

53
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who believed in Monads?

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Leibniz

54
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Kant was an..

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idealist

55
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Schopenhauer was a self proclaimed…

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pessimist

56
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who wrote ‘God does not play dice with the universe’?

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Einstein

57
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who said, “to be is to be perceived”?

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Berkeley

58
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Descartes, Spinoza, Kant, Hegel, and Leibniz are all..

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rationalists

59
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Locke, Berkeley, Hume, Mill, and Russell are all…

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empiricists

60
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Who said,”I think therefore I am”?

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Descartes

61
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The two world theory states there are two worlds. A world of __________ and a world of ____________.

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physical things
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experience

62
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not many rationalists are…

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skeptics

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