Keywords Flashcards
Forms
A name Plato gave to ideal concepts
Reason
Using logical steps and thought processes in order to reach conclusions
Rationalist
Someone who thinks that the primary source of knowledge is reason
Empiricist
Someone who thinks that the primary source of knowledge is experience gained through the five senses.
Prime mover
Aristotles concept of the ultimate cause of movement and change in the universe.
Socratic method
The method of philosophical reasoning which involves critical questioning
Analogy
A comparison between one thing and another to clarify meaning
Transcendent
Being beyond this world and outside the realms of ordinary experience.
Dualism
The beleif that reality can be divided into two distinct parts, such as good and evil, or physical and non-physical.
Aetion
An explanatory factor, a reason or cause of something.
Telos
The end or purpose, of something
Theist
Someone who beleives in God or gods.
