Stephensons 33 Principles

Question 1

What is the major premise of Stephensons 33 Principles?

Answer 1

A universal intelligence is in all matter and continually gives to it all its properties and actions, thus maintaining it in existence

Question 2

IMPORTANT

Answer 2

Saying that allopathic medicine comes from a flawed philosophical position does NOT mean that its methods are not valuable, even life saving in the right circumstances. It just means that a PURELY allopathic outlook on health and disease has serious shortcomings

Question 3

What kind of reasoning does philosophy work through?

Answer 3

Deductive reasoning

Question 4

What does deduction mean?

Answer 4

“To pull out of”

• To derive meaningful conclusions from general principles through logical reasoning
• Usually reasoning from the more general to the more specific

Question 5

Deductive reasoning comes from what?

Answer 5

Research hypothesis/predicted relationships and facts to empirical observations

Question 6

What kind of reasoning did BJ argue was allopathic medicine?

Answer 6

Inductive reasoning

-Going from the specific to the general

Question 7

What kind of reasoning is Chiropractic?

Answer 7

Deductive reasoning

Question 8

How has deductive reasoning proven facts?

Answer 8

Thousands of clinical findings and thousands of observations of the Laws of this Intelligence

Question 9

Deductions are based on the major premise that…?

Answer 9

• Life is intelligent

- There is an Intelligent Creator who created matter, attends to its existence and give to it all that it has

Question 10

What are the strengths of deductive reasoning?

Answer 10

• Can allow us to reason beyond our experience
• 100% certainty of conclusions
• Gives strong basis for actions

Question 11

What the limitations of deductive reasoning?

Answer 11

• Quality of assumptions: are they true? (false assumptions lead to uncertain conclusions)
• Quality of logic: is it valid? (Errors can produce false conclusions from true premises or vise versa)
• Deduction is not self testing: conclusions need to be tested against reality

Question 12

What kind of syllogism does the 33 Principles represent?

Answer 12

Extended Deductive syllogism (If A is true, then B follows, etc)

Question 13

Dr David Koch did what?

Answer 13

Published a review of the Principles in which they were renumbered, categorized, and edited without changing the overall concepts or their intent

Question 14

What are the 3 categories of Principles?

Answer 14

• Universal principles (1-14)
• Biological principles (15-30)
• Chiropractic principles (31-33) - these are specifically chiropractic in nature

Question 15

The Universal principles outline the concepts of what?

Answer 15

• An intelligent universe
• Define and characterize its ability to self organize
• Establish between its organizing intelligence and the matter of which the universe is composed

Question 16

The first 14 principles are most closely related to the concept of what kind of dualism?

Answer 16

Dualistic interactionism

Question 17

What are BJs 3 intelligences?

Answer 17

• Universal intelligence
• Innate intelligence
• Educated intelligence

Question 18

The principle of self organization inherent in all matter is what type of intelligence?

Answer 18

Universal intelligence

Question 19

What did BJ feel that “bridged the great divide” and was the answer to spirit/matter dualism?

Answer 19

The Chiropractic Triune of Life

Question 20

What are 3 parts to the Chiropractic Triune of Life?

Answer 20

• Intelligence provides the form
• Matter/energy (material) expresses the form
• Force links intelligence with matter
• this is meant to apply to all of existence, therefore it is a metaphysical concept

Question 21

T/F: Dr Kock refers the Triune of Organization as it pertains to only animate matter?

Answer 21

False - The Triune of Organization pertains to ALL MATTER, both inanimate and animate

Question 22

What topic does the Biological principles explore?

Answer 22

The topic of “life” identifying the self organizing potential of a living thing as its innate intelligence and describing the unique, constructive forces created within living things to maintain their organization

Question 23

The 16 biological principles say that living things are what?

Answer 23

Life in matter inseperably and are organized and maintained by their “innate intelligence”

Question 24

What are the 16 biological principles more accurately known as?

Answer 24

Critical vitalism or organicism

Question 25

What is the 16th biological principle?

Answer 25

Innate intelligence

Question 26

When a living thing has the intelligence of the universe inborn with it what kind of intelligence is that?

Answer 26

Innate intelligence

Question 27

What is another name for Universal intelligence?

Answer 27

Innate intelligence

Question 28

T/F: Universal intelligence gives all matter all its properties and actions

Answer 28

True

Question 29

Innate intelligence IS or IS NOT universal intelligence but individualized by the attention it pays to the unit

Answer 29

IS

Question 30

According to Biological principle 19, what is the evidence of life?

Answer 30

The signs of life (assimilation, elimination, growth, reproduction, and adaptability) are evidence of the innate intelligence of life

Question 31

The mission of the bodys innate intelligence is to maintain the material of the body of a living thing in Active Organization is what biological principle?

Answer 31

20 - The mission of innate intelligence

Question 32

The 30th biological principle - The Cause of Dis-ease - says what?

Answer 32

Interference with the transmission of innate forces causes incoordination or “dis-ease”

Question 33

The 3 principles that are specific to living organisms with never systems and spinal columns, characterizing the role of the forces traveling over these structures and identifying the problem of interference an dis-ease are called what?

Answer 33

Chiropractic principles

Question 34

What principles establish importance of the nervous system, body functions and cite subluxations?

Answer 34

Chiropractic principles

Question 35

What principle says that the interference with transmission in the body is often directly or indirectly due to subluxation in the spinal column?

Answer 35

33 Subluxations

Question 36

Chiropractic is a philosophy that:

Answer 36

• Likes to keep things natural
• by hand only for the correction of dis-ease
• nonreligious nature
• without the use of surgical means for the correction of incoordination caused by subluxation