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56 Cards in this Set
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post-modern
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Not bound by traditional law
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epistemology
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study of knowledge
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Deductive reasoning
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Clues to come to a conclusion
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empiricism
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knowledge comes from sensory
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Rationalism
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knowledge comes from reason
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tabula rosa
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blank slate
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skepticism
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doubt of judgement/ being skeptical
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absolute skepticism
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knowledge is not possible
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ascetic
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giving up worldly pleasure
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locical possibility
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something can be false, possible to doubt it
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problem of induction
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experience says its true, cant define it though
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dichotomy
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two seperate things that oppose eachother
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evidentialism
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nothing is accepted without evidence
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pragmatism
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only important as its practical use
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syllogism
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reasoning based on combining 2 or more statements
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philosophy of science
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critical analysis of science
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scientism
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blind faity in science
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abduction
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method for discovering best hypothesis
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pragmaticism
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best system in the long run
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the scientific method
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testing lends to facts
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paradigm
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scientific law
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ontology
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study of being
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idealism
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thought that conception of ideas is ultimate knowledge
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materialism
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only things that are physical are real
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monism
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one reality
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dualism
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two different realities
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atman/soul
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permantent, unchanging , reflection of god
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subjective idealism
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real, in relation to the mind
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objective idealism
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mind concieve of something that can exist outside of the mind
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essents
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things that are
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soft determinism
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has parts of free will
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hard determinism
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no free will involved
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fatalism
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cosmic power determined things
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predestination
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deals with destiny, diety possibly doing things
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law of causality
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event cannot procede its cause
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liberatarianism
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moral choices are not chosen by previous events
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existentialism
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existance procedes soul, no soul before body
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utilitarianism
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whats good for all is the greater good
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law of karma
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what you sow, so shall you reap
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theist/theism
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belief in the concept of god
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interactionist
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belief physical and spritual can interact
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pure understanding
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able to recognize sensible things
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cartesian
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deals with rene descartes
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philosophy of religion/methodology
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academic study of religion
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theology
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study of god
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revealed theology
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comes from supernatural events
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natural theology
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knowledge of god comes from reason
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a prioi
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exist before an event
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a posteriori
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exist after an event
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cosmological arguement
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arguement dealing with cosmos events
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teleological arguement
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arguement after design of something
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actuality vs potentiality
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teleological arguement with their differences and similarities
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misogynist
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hates women
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paradox of omnipotence
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good and evil; how can good have evil
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pluralism
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religions are basically the same
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godthing
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assumptions that all humans concieve of god in the same way
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