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infinite regress
A sequence of reasoning or justification that can never come to an end.
When something can only exist when something else exists or occurs before.
The study of correct reasoning.
The act of passing from one true statement to another truth that is believed to follow the form of the first.
Contingent
The study of right and wrong or what is good.
When something can only exist when something else exists or occurs before.
A universal or abstract concept that has an instance or is represented by an actual example
Drawing inferences
Being
Independent of sense experience
The study of right and wrong or what is good.
A person with a conscience, mortal existence, reason, self determinism & thought.
the study of knowledge and justified belief
Argument:
A structured group of statements containing a premises and a conclusion.
correct reasoning
A sequence of reasoning or justification that can never come to an end
A universal or abstract concept that has an instance or is represented by an actual example
Epistemology
The act of passing from one true statement to another truth that is believed to follow the form of the first
Drawing inferences
The study of value both aesthetic value, transcended beauty and moral vale, transcendent ethics
The study of knowledge and justified belief
Ethics Is:
A type of science
only applicable in personal life
The study of right and wrong or what is good
not important in decision-making
Axiology:
The study of knowledge and justified belief
mortal existence, reason, self determinism & thought.
The study of value both aesthetic value, and moral value
study of existence
Logic:
The study of knowledge and justified belief
Drawing inferences
Has valid form and true content
The study of correct reasoning.
Reasoning:
Drawing inferences
When something can only exist when something else exists or occurs before.
Has persuasive force for the hearer
Form of an argument, a logically correct structure
Inference:
Misinterpreting a persons view so thy can be more easily attacked or dismissed
Form of an argument, a logically correct structure
The act of passing from one true statement to another truth that is believed to follow the form of the first
The study of right and wrong or what is good
Valid:
Has persuasive force for the hearer
Has valid form and true content
Form of an argument, a logically correct structure
Sound:
Has persuasive force for the hearer
Has valid form and true content
Form of an argument, a logically correct structure
Cogent:
Has persuasive force for the hearer
Form of an argument, a logically correct structure
Has valid form and true content
A priori: Independent of sense experience
true
false
DEDUCTIVE
gives probability
Independent of sense experience
gives certainty
Dependent Upon sense experience
INDUCTIVE
Independent of sense experience
gives probability
gives certainty
Dependent Upon sense experience
A posteriori is INDEPENDENT Upon sense experience
No, it's dependent
Yes, it's independent
Eternality of God:
God is all powerful
God is infinite in relation to space
God is infinite in relation to time. Not bound by time
God is present everywhere all at once
Immensity of God:
All powerful
God is infinite in relation to space.
Infinite in knowledge
God is infinite in relation to time. Not bound by time.
Omnipresence:
Infinite in knowledge
God is infinite in relation to time. Not bound by time
All loving and good nature
Present everywhere all at once
Omniscience:
Infinite in knowledge
God is infinite in relation to space
All loving and good nature
All powerful
Omnipotence:
Present everywhere all at once
infinite in relation to space.
All powerful
infinite in relation to time.
Omnibenevolence:
Not bound by time
everywhere all at once
All powerful
All loving and good nature
Theist:
someone who believes in God
someone who denies God's existence
belief in the existence of God
belief in one god
Theism
belief in one god
belief in the existence of God
someone who believes in God
belief in many gods
Atheist:
belief in many gods
belief in one god that created the world but left it unattended to run on its own
belief in the existence of God
someone who denies God's existence
Agnostic:
belief in the existence of God
someone who neither accepted nor denies God's existence
someone who believes in God
belief in one god that created the world but left it unattended to run on its own
Monotheism:
the view that although God and the world are distinct the world is a part of God
belief in many gods
the view that God and the universe are the same thing
belief in one god
Polytheism:
belief in many gods
someone who denies God's existence
someone who neither accepted nor denies God's existence
someone who believes in God
Deism:
someone who neither accepted nor denies God's existence
is the view that God and the universe are the same thing
belief in one god that created the world but left it unattended to run on its own
is the view that although God and the world are distinct the world is a part of God
Pantheism:
someone who neither accepted nor denies God's existence
the view that although God and the world are distinct the world is a part of God
the view that God and the universe are the same thing
belief in one god that created the world but left it unattended to run on its own
Panenthesim:
the view that although God and the world are distinct the world is a part of God
one god that created the world but left it unattended to run on its own
the view that God and the universe are the same thing
Moral evil
An argument against a certain belief, system or religion
evil and suffering that is not a consequence of free moral agency but rather natural events or focuses of nature
evil and suffering that is a consequence of the choices or actions relating to another free agent
heinous evil and suffering that is such a type or magnitude that there can be no purpose or reason for its existence
Natural evil
evil and suffering that is a consequence of the choices or actions relating to another free agent
evil and suffering that is not a consequence of free moral agency but rather natural events or focuses of nature ( ex. tsunami)
heinous evil and suffering that is such a type or magnitude that there can be no purpose or reason for its existence
Gratuitous evil
evil and suffering that is not a consequence of free moral agency but rather natural events or focuses of nature ( ex. tsunami)
heinous evil and suffering that is such a type or magnitude that there can be no purpose or reason for its existence
evil and suffering that is a consequence of the choices or actions relating to another free agent
Polemic
An argument against a certain belief, system or religion
A universal or abstract concept that has an instance or is represented by an actual example
argument against free will
argument against polymer
Instantiate
there can be no purpose or reason for existence
An argument against a certain belief, system or religion
another word for fib (lie)
A universal or abstract concept that has an instance or is represented by an actual example
Strawman
Assigning two different meanings to the same significant word in an argument
Arguing that a claim may be true not because it is back by good reason but because everyone is doing it.
Misinterpreting a person's view so they can be more easily attacked or dismissed.
Rejecting a statement just because it comes from a particular person not because it is true or false
Appeal to popularity
Arguing that a claim may be true not because it is backed by good reason but because everyone is doing it.
Misinterpreting a persons view so they can be more easily attacked or dismissed.
Rejecting a statement just because it comes from a particular person not because it is true or false.
Can be judged true or false based on it source.
Genetic Fallacy
It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven as false.
an argument that claims an initial event or action will trigger a series of other events and lead to an extreme or undesirable outcome.
Arguing that a claim may be true not because it is backed by good reason but because everyone is doing it.
Can be judged true or false based on it source.
Equivocation
Arguing that a claim may be true not because it is backed by good reason but because everyone is doing it
an argument that claims an initial event or action will trigger a series of other events and lead to an extreme or undesirable outcome
Assigning two different meanings to the same significant word in an argument
It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven as false
Appeal to ignorance
It asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven as false.
Assigning two different meanings to the same significant word in an argument
an argument that claims an initial event or action will trigger a series of other events and lead to an extreme or undesirable outcome.
Misinterpreting a persons view so they can be more easily attacked or dismissed.
Slippery Slope Fallacy:
Arguing that a claim may be true not because it is backed by good reason but because everyone is doing it.
Assigning two different meanings to the same significant word in an argument
an argument that claims an initial event or action will trigger a series of other events and lead to an extreme or undesirable outcome.
Misinterpreting a persons view so they can be more easily attacked or dismissed.
false dilemma
an argument that claims an initial event or action will trigger a series of other events and lead to an extreme or undesirable outcome.
Arguing that a claim may be true not because it is backed by good reason but because everyone is doing it.
asserts that a proposition is true because it has not yet been proven as false.
presents only two options or sides when there are many options or sides.
