Key Words Flashcards
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St Thomas Aquinas
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- 13th Century Roman Catholic
- Italian Monk
- Summa Theoligiae
- Natural law
2
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Leibniz
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German Philosopher
3
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Pros. Copleston
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Jesuit priest philosopher
4
Q
Russell
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British Philosopher
5
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Hume
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- Scottish philosopher
- empiricist
- atheist
6
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Cosmos
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world universe, called cosmological arg because Aquinas is using the universe to prove the existence of God.
7
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Apriori
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An argument that uses logic to reach a conclusion rather than one that uses empirical evidence
8
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Aposteriori
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An argument that uses empirical evidence to prove a conclusion
9
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Contingent existence
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It relies on something else for it’s existence it cannot exist
