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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.

Epistemology


2.

Belief

the condition of taking a proposition to be true

Epistemology


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Justified Belief

a belief that is taken to be true on the basis of evidence and reasons

Epistemology


4.

“honestly” justified belief

a given individual can always feel justified from their particular, and often restricted, IPOV

Epistemology


5.

Fact

the actual case out there in the world, independently of our saying anything about it.

Epistemology


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Proposition

a meaningful statement that makes a claim that can be rationally judged to be either true or false.

Epistemology

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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.

Epistemology


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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.

Epistemology


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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

Epistemology


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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

Epistemology


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Rationalist and Rationalism

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Epistemology


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Intuition

e

Epistemology


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Correspondence truth test

e

Epistemology


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Coherence truth test

e

Epistemology


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Pragmatic truth test

e

Epistemology


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Noumenal reality

e

Epistemology


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Phenomenal reality

e

Epistemology


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Sensation

e

Epistemology


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Perception

e

Epistemology


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Epistemological Skepticism

e

Epistemology


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Epistemological Relativism

e

Epistemology


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Epistemological Absolutism

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Epistemology


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Philosophical pluralism

e

Epistemology


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Discursive knowledge

e

Epistemology


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Knowledge by Description and by Acquaintance

e

Epistemology


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Existent

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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion


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Metaphysics


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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion


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Ontology

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Real

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Ultimately Real

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Cosmology

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Fundamentally Real

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Emergence

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Ontological Depth

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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion


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Naturalism

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Materialism

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Mechanistic Materialism

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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


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Idealism

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Subjective idealism

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Objective idealism

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Realm of Appearance

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Supersensible Realm

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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion


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Panexperientialism

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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


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Ontological Argument (for God’s existence)

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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion


21.

Teleological Argument

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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion


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Cosmological Argument

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Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Religion


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Theism

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Monotheism

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Polytheism

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Atheism

m

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Agnosticism

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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


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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


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Evolutionary Panentheism

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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

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

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.

metaphysical idealism and metaphysical materialism trace their roots to what ancient philosophy?

ancient Greek philosophy

Democritus held what 3 views?

1.a metaphysical materialist,


2. the first atomist,


3. forerunner of mechanistic science.

Plato held what view?

rationalist, claiming that true knowledge comes through pure reason. Metaphysically he was an objective idealist

Feuerbach quote:

“Man was not created in the image of God; God was created in the image of man.”

Karl Marx quote:

“religion is the opiate of the masses.”