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Abstract
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That which exists in the mind rather than the external world; the conceptual as opposed to the objective; the general as opposed to the particular.
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Absurd
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In logic, a contradiction, as in "round square." In existentialism, the impossibility of objective or ultimate meaning.
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Accident
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A property or quality not essential to a thing.
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Ad hoc
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Literally, "to this"; pertaining to one case alone.
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Ad hominem
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Literally, "to the man"; in logic, an attack on or appeal to the personal rather than to reason.
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Ad infinitum
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Carried on without end; forever
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Aesthetics
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The study of beauty.
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A fortiori
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Literally, "with greater force"; in logic, the argument with the form, "If this is true, then how much more is that true."
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Agnosticism
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The belief that one cannot, or at least does not, know reality, or especially, God.
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Analytic judgement
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According to Kant, a proposition whose predicate is deducible from the subject, as in, "All husbands are married men."
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Analyitic philosophy
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A movement in philosophy, primarily in England and North America, which advocates the analysis of language as the heart of philosophy.
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Antinomy
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A contridiction comprised of a thesis and antithesis.
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Apologetics
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Literally, "defense"; in philosophy, the discipline of ratoinally justifying one's beliefs.
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A posteriori
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From experience, as opposed to priori
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A posteriori
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From experience, as opposed to priori
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A priori
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Prior to or independent of experience.
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A priori
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Prior to or independent of experience.
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Atheism
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The world view which claims that no God exists; the universe is all there is.
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Atomism
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The ancient belief that the universe consists of innumerable tiny, indivisible pellets of realtiy.
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Axiology
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The study of values, as in ethics, aesthetics, and religion.
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Being
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That which is or exists; the real.
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Cause
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The necessary and sufficient condition for an effect.
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Coherence theory of justification
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In epistemology, the theory that there are no immediately justified beliefs; justification is a relationship among beliefs, none of which is epistemologically prior.
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Coherence theory of truth
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A test for truth which considers self-consistency determinative.
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Contingent
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Dependent on another for its existence or function.
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Correspondence theory of truth
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Definition of truth as that which corresponds to reality.
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Cosmological argument
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The argument from the contingent, changing world (cosmos) to the experience of God.
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Deduction
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Arguing from the general to the particular; also a logical argument whose conclusion follows necessarily from one or more premises.
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