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32 Cards in this Set
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Philosophy
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The love and pursuit of wisdom and knowledge.
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Dogma
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A principal or belief or a group of principals or beliefs held authoritatively.
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Hypothesis
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Something taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
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Thought Experiment
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a technique used for testing a hypothesis by imagining a situation and its implications
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Objective
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Having or consisting of actual, absolute, pure or fundamental truth/reality.
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Subjective
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the condition of a particular or personal perspective or experience of reality
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metaphysics
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The branch of philosophy concerned with the nature and structure reality
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epistemology
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the branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of knowledge and justification
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axiology
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The branch of philosophy that is concerned with the nature of values.
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Monism
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The doctrine that all reality is of one kind
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Materialism
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the theory that everything is material/physical.
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Epiphenomenalism
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The theory that physical states cause mental states but mental states do no cause anything (Brand of reductionism and materialism)
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dualism
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The doctrine that reality is of two kinda: mind and body
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Interactionism
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The theory that mental and physical states have a casual relationship.
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Parallelism
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The view that mental and physical realms co-occur (occasionalism, pre-established harmony, and dual-aspectism are varieties.)
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Dasein
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The unitary phenomenom of being-in-the-world; conscious awareness of our own beingness
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Gricean Intentions
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process required to understand, articulate and communicate an idea; thoughts about thoughts about thoughts (Pertaining to Phil. of Mind)
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Existentialism
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A philosophical movement concerned with questions about the human condition regarding power, freedom, meaning and purpose
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Phenomenology
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A philisophical movement concerned with the study of essences, meaning, and being as they are to be constituted in the world via out subjective apparatus for knowing
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Eschatology
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Doctrine concerning final matters (death, afterlife, rebirth, ect.)
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Nihilism
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The denial of all real existence or the possibility of and objective basis for truth/knowledge
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solipsism
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the theory that only the self exists, or can be proved to exist.
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Subjective best
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Moments/times in a self-conscious life where philosophical questioning cannot lead to existential angst due to the present state of satisfaction
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Forlornness
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a condition of hopelessness and despair brought on by the existential realizations concerning the potential meaninglessness and solitude inherent in human existence.
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Godhead
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The abstract or essential divine nature of god: a non-personified god-concept.
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karma
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The moral Law of cause and effect
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Samsara
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The cycle of life, death and rebirth.
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Anicca
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impermanence
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anatta
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doctrine of no self
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nirvana
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extinction of self/attatchment resulting in the ideal/true condition of existence
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four noble truths
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life is suffering, caused by selfish craving, liberation is attainable, enlightenment via the 8 fold path
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8 fold path
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. Right View Wisdom
2. Right Intention 3. Right Speech Ethical Conduct 4. Right Action 5. Right Livelihood 6. Right Effort Mental Development 7. Right Mindfulness 8. Right Concentration |
