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What is a premise?

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A statement which forms the basis of an arguement

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What is a dedectuive arguement?

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An arguement where the premise (statement) leads to the only possible conclusion

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What is an inductive arguement?

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An arguement where the premises lead to a conclusion that is probable, but not conclusive

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What does A Priori mean?

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A type of arguement that reaches a conclusion based only on reason, E.G.- Every apple is a fruit

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What does A Posteriori mean?

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A type of arguement that reaches a conclusion beased on observation and experience

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What does Empirical mean?

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The primary source of knowledge is experience gained through the 5 senses, E.G.- You cannot make up a colour you’ve never seen before

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What does rational mean?

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The primary source of knowledge is reason, using logical steps. E.G.- Two odd numbers will always add together to make an even number

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What is a tautology?

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A statement that is always true; it contains the definition within, E.G.- A triangle has 3 sides

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What is an Epistemology?

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Alson known as the theory of knowledge, this asks about what we can claim to know, E.G.- What is truly good?

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Ancient p influence- What is a syllogism?

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A structure of an arguement set out by Aristotle, containg a major premise (all or nothing statement) or a minor premise (a sentence with a single piece of information) E.G.- All p are q, r is p, therfore r is q

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Ancient p influence- What are Forms?

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The name Plato gave to his ideal concepts

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Ancient p influence- What is Reason?

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Using logical steps and thought processes in order to reach conclusions

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Ancient p influence- What is the Prime Mover?

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Aristotle’s concept of the ultimate cause of movement and change in the universe

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Ancient p influence- What is the Socratic method?

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The method of philosophical reasoning which involves critical questioning

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Ancient p influence- What is an analogy?

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A comparison between one thing and another in an attempt to clarify meaning

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Ancient p influence- What is Transcendent?

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Being beyond this world and outside the realms of ordinary experience

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Ancient p influence- What is Aetion?

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An explanatory factor, a reason or cause for something

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Ancient p influence- What is Telos?

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The end, or purpose, of something

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Ancient p influence- What is Theist?

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Someone who believes in God or gods

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Soul, mind, and body-
Monism (Materialism)

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Humans are made up of only a single substance, thiere is only a body, no soul or seperate mind

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Soul, mind, and body-
Idealistic Monism

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only the mind exists, and conseqeuntly that the external, physical world is an illusion created by the mind

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Soul, mind, and body-
Materialistic Monism

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single reality is matter, made up either only of atoms or of some world, forming substance. The essential view is that all states may be reduced to the physical.

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Soul,mind, and body-
Behaviourism

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all mental states one simple descriptions of behaviour that can be observed.

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Soul, mind, body-
What is Dualism?

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Humans consist of 2 substances, the body and the mind/soul

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Soul,mind,body- What is a Soul?

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Often, but not always, understood to be the non-physical essence of a person

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Soul,mind,body- What is Consciousness?

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Awareness or perception

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Soul,mind,body- What is Substance?

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A subject which has different properties attributed to it

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Soul,mind,body- What is Dualism?

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The belief that reality can be divided into two distinct parts, such as good and evil, or physical and non-physical.

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Soul,mind,body- What is Scepticism?

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A questioning approach which does not take assumptions for granted.

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Soul,mind,body- What is Reductive Materialsm?

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Otherwise known as identity theory- the view that mental events are identical with physical occurences in the brain.

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Soul,mind,body- What is Category error?

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A problem of language that arises when things are talked about as if they beling to one category when in fact they belong to another.

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Arguements on observations- What is Teleological?

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Looking to the end results (telos) in order to draw a conclusion about what is right or wrong

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Arguements on observation- What is Cosmological?

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To do with the universe

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Arguements on observation- What is Natural Theology?

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Drawing conclusions about the nature and activity of God by using reason and observing the world. The oppositve of Revealed Theology

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Arguements on observation- What is a Contingent?

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Depending on other things

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Arguements on observation- What Principle of Sufficent Reason?

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The principle that everything must have a reason to explain it

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Arguements on observation- What is a Sceptic?

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Someone who will not accept what tohers say without questioning and challenging

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Arguements on observation- What is an A Posteriori arguement?

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Arguements which draw conclusions based on observation throught experience

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Arguements on observation- What is Necessary existence?

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Existence whcih does not depend on anything else

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Arguements on observation- What is an A Priori arguemen?

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Arguements which draw conclusions through the use of reason

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Arguements on observation- What is a logical fallacy?

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Reasoning that has a flaw in it’s structure

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Arguements on reason- What is Ontological?

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To do with the nature of existence

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Arguements on reason- What is Contingent?

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Depending on other things

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Arguements on reason- What is Necessary Existence?

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Existence which does not depend on anything else

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Arguements on reason- What is a predicate?

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A term which describes a dstinctive xcharacteristic of something

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Arguements on reason- What is Epistemic Distance?

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A distance in knowledge and understanding

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Religious experience- What is a mystical experience?

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Experiences of God or of the supernatural which go beyond everday sense experience

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Religious experience- What is a Conversion experience?

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An experience which produces a readical change in someone’s belief system

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Religious experience- What is a Corporate religious experience?

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Religious experiences which happen to a group of people ‘as a body’.

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Religious experience- Whar is a Numinous experience?

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An indescribable experience which invokes feelings of awe,worship, and fascination

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Religious experience- What is the Principle of credulity?

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Swinburne’s principle that we should usually believe what our senses tell us we are perceving.

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Religious experience- What is the Principle of Testimony?

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Swinburne’s principle that we should usually trust that other people are telling us the truth.

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Religious experience- What is a Naturalistic explanation?

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An explanation referring to natural rather than supernatural causes.

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Religious experience- What is Neurophysiology?

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An area of science which studies the brain and the nervous system.

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Problem of evil- What is Omnipotent?

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All-powerful

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Problem of evil- What is Omniscient?

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All-knowing

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Problem of evil- What is Omnibenevolent?

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All-loving

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Problem of evil- What is the Inconscient triad?

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The omnibenevolence and omnipotentence of God, and the existence of evil in the world, are said to be mutually incompatible

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Problem of evil- Theodicy?

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An attempt to justify God in the face of evil in the world

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Problem of evil- What is Natural evil?

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Evil and suffering caused by non-human agencies

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Problem of evil- What is Moral Evil?

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The evil done and the suffering caused by deliberate misuse of human free will

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Problem of evil- What is Privatio boni?

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A phrase used by Augustine to mean an absence of goodness

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Problem of evil- What is Free will?

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The ability to make independant choices between real options

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