key words

Question 1

omniscient

Answer 1

all-knowing

Question 2

omnipresent

Answer 2

present everywhere

Question 3

omnibenevolent

Answer 3

all-loving

Question 3

omnipotent

Answer 3

all-powerful

Question 4

incarnation

Answer 4

taking human, physical form

Question 5

eternal

Answer 5

living forever, no beginning or end

Question 5

transcendent

Answer 5

above and beyond the physical world

Question 6

immanent

Answer 6

present in our physical world

Question 7

a priori

Answer 7

without or prior to experience, used in a ontological argument, based on acquired knowledge, independent or prior to experience

Question 8

a posteriori

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on the basis of experience, used in a cosmological argument, based on experience and empirical evidence

Question 9

cumulative arguments

Answer 9

a collection of arguments that when formed together create a stronger argument than when the arguments stand alone

Question 10

inductive arguments

Answer 10

argument constructed on possibly true premesis reaching a logically probable and persuasive conclusion

Question 11

deductive arguments

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an argument where if the premesis are true, the conclusion must be true

Question 12

empiricism

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the view that the dominant foundation of knowledge is experience.

Question 13

atemporal

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existing outside time

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probability

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the likelihood of something happening or being true

Question 15

classical theism

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belief in a personal deity, creator of everything that exists, who is distinct from that creation and is sustainer and preserver of the universe

Question 16

contingent beings

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beings that depend upon something else for their existence, they have the property that they need to be or could have been different

Question 17

necessary beings

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beings which if they exist, cannot not exist, not dependent on any other for their existence

Question 18

infinite regression

Answer 18

a chain of causes or sequence of reasoning that can never come to an end