Final Flashcards
Idealism
Rejects existence of an eternal world independent of you mind
Metaphysical realism
Eternal world exists independently of your mind
Fidesims
Believing only on faith, rejecting reason in religious endeavors
Coherence theory of truth
Truth is determined by consistency in a system
Pragmatism
Truth is determined by what works
Subjectivism
Truth is relative to the individual
Correspondence theory of truth
Truth directly relates to reality. Reality is outside myself.
Rationality
Using deductive logic in an argument
Authority
Something believed on the testimony of an authority
A priori
Argument that precedes using the 5 senses
A posteriori
Argument that follows using the 5 senses
Post hoc
Chronological events are incorrectly connected as cause and effect
Argument from silence
An unsupportable but possible conclusion
Begging the question
The conclusion is a restatement of the premise
False dilemma
A question posed, but only a limited number of answers are offered
Faulty analogy
Statement that does not fully connect two things being compared
Poison the well
Connecting an opponent’s position with weakness
Red herring
A change of subject
Ad homenem
Attacking the arguer instead of the argument
Hasty generalization
False conclusion based on too small of a sampling
Slippery slope
If/then statement that is not causally related
Ontology
Study of existence. “The question of what is?”
Epistemology
Study of knowledge. “How do you know what you know?”
Axiology
Study of values. “Why do you value your values?”
Atheism
There is only the physical universe
Pantheism
God and the world are identical. Good and evil must balance
Theism
God is creator, outside the universe. Benevolence, omniscient, omnipotent
Deism
God exists but he does not act in the universe
Agnosticism
You can’t know f there is a God
Polytheism
There are many gods
Finite godism
God exists but he is limited in one or more aspects of his nature
Presuppositions apologetics
Christianity proven on basic, fundamental assumptions
Experiential Apologetics
Christianity proven from personal accounts
Evidential apologetics
Christianity proven from historical and archaeological evidence
Classical apologetics
Christianity proven from historical, archeological evidence and reason
John 14:6
Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen
John 18:38
“What is truth?” retorted Pilate. With this he went out again to the Jews gathered there and said, “I find no basis for a charge against him.
Hinduism
Polytheistic and pantheistic; absorption into cosmic conscientious
Buddhism
Goal is the annihilation of self to escape suffering
Islam
Believes society should be based on the laws of Islam
Judaism
Believes they have a special relationship with God because of their race
Christianity
Believes in saving blood atonement through a messiah