Final Flashcards
The major premise
1
Universal intelligence in all matter, continuously giving to it all its properties and actions thus maintaining it in existence
What are the 33 principles
Extended deductive syllogism
if A is true then B follows
3 intelligences
Universal
Innate
Educated
Triune of life
Matter
Force
Intelligence
“bridged the great divide”
5 Signs of life
Assimilation, elimination, growth, reproduction, and adaptability
Mission of innate intelligence
Active organization
Survival
3 Main doctrines of metaphysical concepts
materialism/physicalism
idealism
dualism
Dualism is divided into what 3 things
Substance dualism (idealism) property dualism (materialism) dualistic interactionism
Healing methods stem from what philosophy
philosophy—>paradigm—>attitudes—>
approach—>practice
Metaphysics
Fundamental nature of existence
Combo of ontology, cosmology, teleology
Ontology
nature of being or reality
Cosmology
origin and structure of the universe
Teleology
study of first causes
Materialism=physicalism
- all about matter
- mind/spirit/soul is an aspect or function of the brain/body
- can become dogma-scientific exclusionism
Idealism
- mind/spirit is reality, but immaterial in nature
- objects of perception (matter) are only ideas of the perceiving mind
- matter is a creation of mind
Dualism
- Attributed to descartes
- Reality has two elements (mind and matter)
- Functions on two levels (mental and physical)
Property Dualism
- Favored by materialistic/physiclistic
- mind is a property of the body
- it is epiphenomenal
- mind does not cause bodily activities
- the mind is an effect of them
- body gives rise to mind
- when body dies, mind ceases to exist
“mind is to body as smoke is to fire”
Substance dualism
- favored by idealistic
- mind is distinct from the body
- it is a real substance
- it can cause things to happen by acting
- mind exists separate from body so it exists after death
“soul or spirit is the mind”
Only matter, never mind
materialism/physicalism
Only mind, never matter
idealism
mind FROM matter
property dualism
mind IN matter
substance dualism
mind AND matter
dualistic interactionism
What did BJ Palmer term the mind/body dilemma
Great divide
Traditional chiropractic philosophy embraces what form of metaphysics
dualism, specifically dualistic interactionism
Two fundamental paradigms
mechanism/atomism and vitalism
What is life-mechanism/atomism
- life is explained by actions of physical, chemical, and electrical forces
- derived from materialism or scientific exclusionism
- a reaction to antiscientific theological doctrines
- central dogma of biology
“whole is equal to the sum of its parts”
What is life- vitalism
- non physical in nature
- derived from dualism
- life=chemistry animated by spirit/force
- inclusive doctrine
- matter/chemistry + the additional influence of a separate, non-physical entity or field
Two interpretations of vitalism
extreme and moderate
Extreme vitalism = naive
- matter evolves, then spirit animates it
- lends itself to theological interpretation
- presence in living systems of a substantial entity that imparts to the system powers possessed by no inanimate body
“ghost in the machine”
examples of extreme vitalism
a lifeless corpse he lost his life a cat's nine lives life in a test tube frankensteins monster
Moderate vitalism
- mind co-evolves with physical structure
- vital forces always a part never apart from the process of living thing
“life in matter inseparably”
What are the major premise and triune of life in chirpractic philosophy paralleled to
moderate vitalism
examples of moderate vitalism
innate intelligence
universal intelligence
moderate mechanism
the presence in living systems of emergent properties, contingent upon the organization of inanimate parts, but not reducible to them
life is epiphenomenal- an emergent property of the matter
self-forming is
autopoietic
self-organizing is
structurally antientropic
self-regulating
homeostatic
self-repairing
self-healing
entropy
thermodynamic term referring to energy equilibrium
structural entropy
ever-growing disorder in the universe over time; proceeding toward disorder
structural antientropy
development of INCREASED order or organizations; sometimes termed syntropy
Which type of dualism didn’t exists according to Dr. Lipton
materialism/property dualism “mechanical”
only idealism/substance “quantum energy based” should exist
Which philosophy did Dr. Lipton follow
the tendency to seek correction of cause by restoring integrity to the system
NOT tendency to treat disease entities/symptoms
deduction
laws–>theory–>research hypothesis–>
predicted relationships–> facts–>
empirical observations
induction
empirical observations–>facts–>
empirical generalizations–>
conceptual framework–>
theory–>law
T/F the human body and its behavior are machine like and thus are controlled by our genes
False according to Dr. Lipton
T/F the universe and the humans in it are most accurately described in terms of energy “quantum universe”
True according to Dr. Lipton
What is the central dogma of biomedicine
medicines adherence to the concept of genes controlling biology dates to Darwin’s work, and reinforced by Watson & Crick’s discovery of DNA
Human genome project
predicted 100,000-300,00 genes would exists to explain human physiology
only 30,000 exist
T/F a cell can live without a nucleus if the human brain is still intact
True- therefore the nucleus/DNA does not control a cell’s behavior
What functionally controls a cell’s behavior
What is its brain
the cell membrane
works as a switch receiving signals from cell’s environment
What are environmental signals
perception
what controls the behavior of our cells
signals/energy from the environment
what is the flow of control of behavior
above-down-inside-out
ADIO
What are the limitations of deductive reasoning
quality of assumptions
quality of logic
it is not self testing
Which principles are universal
1-14
Which principles are biological
15-30
Which principles are chiropractic
31-33
What are the 3 categories of the 33 principles
universal
biological
chiropractic
What do the universal principles state
-outline the concept of intelligent universe
-define ability to self organize
-establish the relationship between
intelligence and matter
“dualistic interactionism”
what do the biological principles state
- self organizing potential of a living thing as its innate intelligence
- describe constructive forces created within living things
“life in matter inseparably”
Innate intelligence
16
a living thing has the intelligence of the universe inborn within it, referred to as its “innate intelligence”
universal intelligence
- is expressed in living things
- gives all matter its properties and actions
Evidence of life
19
The signs of life (assimilation, elimination, growth, reproduction, adaptability) are evidence of the innate intelligence of life
The mission of Innate intelligence
The mission of the body’s innate intelligence is to maintain the material of the body of a living thing in active organization
The cause of dis-ease
interference with the transmission of innate forces causes in-coordination, or dis-ease
Subluxations
#33 Interference with transmission in the body is often directly or indirectly due to subluxations in the spinal column
Key phrases of stephenson’s defintion of chiropractic
things natural
by hand only
the cause of dis-ease
key phrases of sinnot’s definiton of chiropractic
- nonreligious nature
- without the use of surgical means
- correction of incoordination
