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De facto
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Actually; as a matter of fact
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Deism
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The belief that God created the world and is transcendent; denies that God is immanent in the world, especially in any supernatural way.
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Deontology
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The ethical view that stresses duty rather than consequences (see teleology)
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Demiurge
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Plato's concept of a creator or god who formed the world (cosmos) out of the chaos.
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Determinism
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The belief that all events in the universe (including man's actions) are controlled by previous conditions.
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Dialectic
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Drawing out truth through dialogue that leads to logical conclusions.
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Dialectical
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A process of thought or of history which by the tension between thesis and antithesis leads to a synthesis.
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Dualism
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The world view which teaches the existence of two ultimate realities (such as God and evil, or Spirit and matter).
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Efficient cause
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The agent by which an effect is produced.
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Emanation
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In pantheism (Plotinus), the flowing of the universe necessarily from God, as rays flow from the sun or radii flow from the certer of a circle.
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Empirical verifiability principle
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In logical positivism, the belief that only those propositions which are verifiable through sense experience are meaningful.
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Empiricism
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The theory of knowledge which holds that all knowledge begins in sense experience.
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Epistemology
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Theory of knowledge or how we know.
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Equivocation
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Use of the same term with two different meanings.
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Eschatology
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Study of last things (the future).
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Essence
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Qualities or attributes of a thing which are necessary; its nature
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Essentialism, ethical
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The ethical view that God wills moral rules because they are right, and flow from His essence or character (see voluntarism)
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Ethics
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The study of right and wrong, of what one ought to do.
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Exemplar cause
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The pattern or blueprint after which something is made.
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Existentialism
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A philosophical movement which stresses that existence is prior to essence; the concrete and individual is over the abstract and universal.
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Ex nihilo
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The Christian belief that God created the world "out of nothing".
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Fallacy
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A logical error of inference, relationship, or conclusion.
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Fideism
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The view that there are no rational ways to justify one's beliefs; faith alone is necessary.
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Final cause
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The end or goal for which an agent acts; the ultimate.
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Finite
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Having specific boundaries or limits.
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