Key Words - Traditional Arguments For Existence Of God

Question 0

Synthetic

Answer 0

A statement which needs external evidence to verify if it’s true of false

Question 1

Analytic

Answer 1

A statement that contains the thruth needed to verify it within itself

Question 2

Necessary

Answer 2

Must exist, cannot not exist

Question 3

Predicate

Answer 3

A quality or property of an object or subject

Question 4

Contingent

Answer 4

Depends on something else for its existence

Can cease to exist

Question 5

Infinite regress

Answer 5

A chain of events going backwards forever

Question 6

Aquinas’ 5 ways

Answer 6

Motion, cause, contingency, morality, design

Question 7

Telos

Answer 7

End result/ purpose

Question 8

Design qua regularity

Answer 8

Design relating to the regular cycles and natural laws of the world
Eg. The law of gravity

Question 9

Design qua purpose

Answer 9

Design relating to purpose

Eg. The human eye

Question 10

Postulate

Answer 10

A possible solution; assumption

Question 11

Summum bonum

Answer 11

Highest good, when virtue and happiness coincide

Question 12

Oedipus complex

Answer 12

Suppressed guilt from child wanting mother

Question 13

Epicurean hypothesis

Answer 13

Given infinite time and an infinite number of particles order can be produced

Question 14

Fallacy of composition

Answer 14

What is observed about parts cannot be assumed to be the same for the whole

Question 15

Principle of sufficient reason

Answer 15

The complete and full explanation of why there is something rather than nothing

Question 16

Id
Ego
Superego
(Freud)

Answer 16

3 parts of the mind
Desire
Reasoning (balancing of the Id and superego)
Shaped by external influences (sense of ought)