Ps Chapter 1

Front 1

Authority

Back 1

you accept/trust the knowledge of another person even if you haven't had the same experiences the person who you gained the knowledge from did

Front 2

Intuition

Back 2

"five senses knowledge", religious knowledge, "hunches", "feelings", "belief"

Front 3

Reason

Back 3

the capacity for logical, rational, and analytic thought-intelligence, assumptions and conclusions

Front 4

Sensory data

Back 4

Knowledge obtained through the senses: sight, hearing, touch, taste, and smell

Front 5

Existence

Back 5

the fact or state of having actual or real being

Front 6

Casuality

Back 6

cause must precede the effect, can be explained rationally through the laws of nature

Front 7

Position symmetry

Back 7

the laws of nature are not different at different locations, ex: law of gravity

Front 8

Time symmetry

Back 8

laws of nature do not change with time

Front 9

Principle of noncontradiction

Back 9

of two contradictory propositions, both cannot be true

Front 10

Occum's razor

Back 10

simpler explanations are more likely to be true than complex ones

Front 11

force

Back 11

a push or pull on an object

Front 12

strong nuclear

Back 12

the interaction between nucleens that gives rise to the strong force

Front 13

electromagnetic

Back 13

the interaction between charged objects that gives rise to the electromagnetic force

Front 14

weak nuclear

Back 14

the interaction between nucleens that gives rise to the weak force

Front 15

gravity

Back 15

the interaction between anything with mass that gives rise to the gravitational force