Random Facts Flashcards
What is the lowest quality energy?
Heat
The three states or phases in which matter can be found:
Solid, fluid, and gaseous
Also plasma
What we mean by heat and measure in temperature is _______
disordered movement.
Temperature is a concept that means anything only if we have a lot
of _______
molecules at once.
After a while, a molecule in a gas will have bumped into other molecules and therefore acquired a certain _______
“knowledge” of the speeds of the other molecules.
All “facts” we currently accept are still, at their core, _______
just ideas that are our best current explanatory models rather than permanently settled truths.
New evidence or perspectives could revise or overturn previously held “facts.” So in this view, facts are constantly updated working ideas about reality rather than permanently factual.
The distinction between an act as a category and activity as something beyond categories is _______
nuanced and relates to how we perceive and interact with reality. An act can be seen as a category because it represents a defined, discrete action or event that we can label and categorize. It’s a way of breaking down our experiences into manageable, understandable units
If you ignore something thats real _______
sooner or later its gonna cause you trouble
Nietzsche believed that Paul, and later the Protestants following Luther, had removed moral responsibility from Christ’s followers. They had watered down the idea of the imitation of Christ. This imitation was the sacred duty of the believer not to _______
adhere (or merely to mouth) a set of statements about abstract belief but instead to actually manifest the spirit of the Saviour in the particular, specific conditions of his or her life—to realize or incarnate the archetype, as Jung had it; to clothe the eternal pattern in flesh
For Nietzsche and Dostoevsky alike, freedom—even the ability to act requires _______.
constraint
“Spiritual is good, physical is bad” is a key _______
Gnostic belief
Gnostics see salvation as _______
escape from ‘matter’ - the physical world
in the context of relationships, intimacy is generally considered the opposite of _______
lust, as lust is primarily focused on physical attraction and immediate sexual desire, while intimacy involves a deeper emotional connection and closeness beyond just physical attraction
Chronic stress can _______
shrink the amygdala—that’s the area of the brain that’s responsible for processing emotions—which can lead to depression and anxiety. And not just that, but cortisol is toxic to the hippocampus, the area of the brain that’s responsible for memory function.
“He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a _______.”
lunatic
