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Epistemology |
is that branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature, sources, and validity of knowledge. |
Epistemology
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Knowledge |
justified, true belief 1. You must believe the proposition. 2. You must have good reasons (i.e., reasons that are true and relevant) for believing the proposition. 3. The proposition must, in fact, be true. |
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Belief |
the condition of taking a proposition to be true |
Epistemology 3. |
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Justified Belief |
a belief that is taken to be true on the basis of evidence and reasons |
Epistemology 4. |
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“honestly” justified belief |
a given individual can always feel justified from their particular, and often restricted, IPOV |
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Fact |
the actual case out there in the world, independently of our saying anything about it. |
Epistemology 6. |
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Proposition |
a meaningful statement that makes a claim that can be rationally judged to be either true or false. |
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Analytic proposition |
a proposition that we can know the truth or falsity of by simply understanding the language of the proposition itself. Examples: 1. A circle is not a square. 2. All bachelors are unmarried males. |
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Empirical proposition |
refer to facts out there in the world that are open to public, sensory observation. 5 senses must be used.
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Epistemology 9. |
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Internal sense proposition |
refer to purely private, personal experience that is available only from a subjective, first-person POV EXAMPLE: I have a headach |
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Empiricist and Empiricism |
Those thinkers who say that sense experience is the most basic source of knowledge are called empiricists, and their method, which grounds knowledge in sense experience, is called empiricism |
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Rationalist and Rationalism |
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Epistemology 12. |
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Intuition |
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Epistemology 13. |
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Correspondence truth test |
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Coherence truth test |
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Epistemology 15. |
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Pragmatic truth test |
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Epistemology 16. |
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Noumenal reality |
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Epistemology 17. |
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Phenomenal reality |
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Epistemology 18. |
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Sensation |
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Perception |
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Epistemological Skepticism |
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Epistemology 21. |
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Epistemological Relativism |
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Epistemology 22. |
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Epistemological Absolutism |
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Epistemology 23. |
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Philosophical pluralism |
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Epistemology 24. |
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Discursive knowledge |
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Epistemology 25. |
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Knowledge by Description and by Acquaintance |
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Epistemology 26. |
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Existent |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 1. |
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Metaphysics |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 2. |
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Ontology |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 3. |
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Real |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 4. |
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Ultimately Real |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 5. |
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Cosmology |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 6. |
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Fundamentally Real |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 7. |
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Emergence |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 8. |
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Ontological Depth |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 9. |
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Naturalism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 10. |
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Materialism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 11. |
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Mechanistic Materialism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 12. |
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Humanistic Naturalism (or Secular Humanism) |
Secular not concerned with religion,or supernaturalism. guided by reason compassion, and informed exp. |
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 13. |
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Idealism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 14. |
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Subjective idealism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 15. |
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Objective idealism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 16. |
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Realm of Appearance |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 17. |
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Supersensible Realm |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 18. |
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Panexperientialism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 19. |
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Religion |
an expression of human culture and consciousness that embodies certain beliefs and practices that are believed to relate the individual to others, to his deepest self, and to ultimate reality |
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 20. |
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Ontological Argument (for God’s existence) |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 21. |
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Teleological Argument |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 22. |
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Cosmological Argument |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 23. |
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Theism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 24. |
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Monotheism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 25. |
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Polytheism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 26. |
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Atheism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 27. |
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Agnosticism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 28. |
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Pantheism |
The physically manifest universe and God are one. The physically manifest universe is identical with the being of God. Therefore, God is totally present as the physically manifest universe. |
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 29. |
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Panentheism |
The physical universe is a manifestation of God’s being, in that all things are in God. However, God’s being is not exhausted by its physical manifestation because God’s being transcends the physically manifest universe. |
Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 30. |
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Evolutionary Panentheism |
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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion 31. |
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ESSAY: MPR 8a What is objective idealism? What does it say about the place of mind/consciousness, human values, and purpose in the cosmos? Why does it say that to understand reality we must come to know its most developed form? Why could we say “the cosmos peoples” from the POV of objective idealism? |
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ESSAY: MPR 8a
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ESSAY: MPR 17 Be able to account for the appearance of human religion from an inside and outside POV. What important question can be raised about the inside view, and in what two ways might it be answered? |
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ESSAY: MPR 17
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An objective idealist would say: |
if you want to know what is most representative of reality in the cosmos, you must examine the universe’s most developed form because the cosmos in its most developed form has the most ontological (reality) depth. |
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metaphysical idealism and metaphysical materialism trace their roots to what ancient philosophy? |
ancient Greek philosophy |
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Democritus held what 3 views? |
1.a metaphysical materialist, 2. the first atomist, 3. forerunner of mechanistic science. |
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Plato held what view? |
rationalist, claiming that true knowledge comes through pure reason. Metaphysically he was an objective idealist |
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Feuerbach quote: |
“Man was not created in the image of God; God was created in the image of man.” |
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Karl Marx quote: |
“religion is the opiate of the masses.” |
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