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16 Cards in this Set
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universials, Platonism
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idea that there are universals
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Nominalist
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the only thing that signifies a thing is the particulars of that thing
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"Ability and being-at-work" ability
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-such as the ability to see or the ability to desire food
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"Ability and being-at-work" condition
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completes a part of human nature, like understanding a math problem... it opens the door
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"Ability and being-at-work" work or action
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an actual act, such as the act of learning and thus completing itself, much like the tameran that does tameran things is completing his nature
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"four causes" material cause
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what something is made up of
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"four causes" formal cause
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this is the form
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"four causes" efficient or moving cause
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what guides the creation of the thing... for example, table's efficient cause is a man table making
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"four causes" final cause
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its aim or purpose
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reductionism
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seems to be the birth of relitivism in so far as it says that nothing is more beautiful then another thing, theres not too much order to the universe
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Bacon
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he sought to understand nature and then be able to manipulate it for human's needs
"knowledge is power" -bacon is not a pragmatismist but simply a father of it |
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Bacon
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he sought to understand nature and then be able to manipulate it for human's needs
"knowledge is power" -bacon is not a pragmatismist but simply a father of it |
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roots of modern Pragmatism
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we live in a circle formed by our own beliefs
-it makes more sense to ask how can we live out our lives and not worry about the whole nature of shit -very man centered |
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roots of modern Pragmatism
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we live in a circle formed by our own beliefs
-it makes more sense to ask how can we live out our lives and not worry about the whole nature of shit -very man centered |
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Kant
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-we can not know things other then how they appear to us
-we cant have knowledge that goes beyond our capabilties such as god "reason only has insight into what itself produces |
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Kant
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-we can not know things other then how they appear to us
-we cant have knowledge that goes beyond our capabilties such as god "reason only has insight into what itself produces |
