Reading Definitions Up To 1St Writing Assignment

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Credulity

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A tendency to be too ready to believe something is real or true

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Indubitable

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Impossible to doubt: unquestionable

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Corporeal

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Referring to someone's body not of the Spirit

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Objectivity

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Based on facts rather than feelings or opinions not influenced by feelings existing outside of the mind existing in the real world

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Humanist

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A system of values and beliefs that is based on the idea that people are basically good and that problems can be solved using reason instead of religion

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Subjectivity

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Relating to the way a person experiences things in his or her own mind based on feelings or opinions rather than facts

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Humanities

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A doctrine attitude or way of life centered on human interest or values especially: a philosophy that usually reject supernaturalism and stresses an individual's dignity and worth and capacity for self realization through reason

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Paradigms

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A philosophical and theoretical framework of a social school or discipline within which theories laws and generalizations and the experiments performed in support of them or formulated: A philosophical or theoretical framework of any kind, a model or pattern for something that may be copied

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Methodical

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Done by using a careful and organized procedure

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Cognitive

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Of relating to or involving conscious mental activities such as thinking understanding learning and remembering

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Rhetoric

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Language that is intended to influence people and that may not be honest or reasonable

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Antecedently

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A word or phrase that is represented by another word, something that came before something else that may have influenced or caused it

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Totalitarian

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Controlling the people of a country in a very strict way with complete power that cannot be opposed

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Eschew

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To avoid something especially because you do not think it is right proper ect.

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Dogmatism

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A viewpoint or system of ideas based on insufficiently examined premises

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Secularization

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To transfer the ownership or control of something from a religious organization to a state

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Positivists

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A theory that the theology and metaphysics are earlier imperfect modes of knowledge and that positive knowledge is based on natural phenomenon and their properties and relations as verified by the empirical sciences

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Relativism

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The belief that different things are true right excetera for different people or at different times

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Verisimilitude

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The quality of seeming real

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Epistemological

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The study or a theory of the nature and grounds of knowledge especially with reference to its limits and validity

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Intersubjectivity

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Involving or occurring between separate conscience minds < intersubjective communication > acceptable to or capable of being established for two or more subjects: objective <intersubjective reality of the physical world>

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Epithet

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An offensive word or name that is used as a way of abusing or insulting someone

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Ethnocentric

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Having or based on the idea that your own grouper or culture is better or more important then others

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Relativistic

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Moving at a velocity such that there is a significant change in properties in accordance with the theory of relativity

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Non-parochial

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Not limited to only the things that affect your local area

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Solidarity

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A feeling of unity between people who have the same interest goals excetra

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Ahistorical

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A feeling of unity between two people that have the same interests goals etc

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Transcultural

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Involving encompassing or extending across two or more cultures

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Secular

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Not spiritual of or relating to the physical world and not the spiritual world

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Repudiation

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The act of repudiating: the state of being repudiated; especially: the refusal of public authorities to acknowledge or pay debt

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Taxonomy

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The process or system of describing the way in which different living things are related by putting them into groups

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Metaphysical

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Of or relating to things that are thought to exist but that cannot be seen

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Positivism

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A philosophical system that holds that every rational justifiable assertation can be scientifically verified or is capable of logic or mathematical proof and that therefore rejects metaphysics and theism: theory that laws are to be understood as social rules valid because they are enacted by authority or derived logically from existing decisions and ideal or moral considerations should not limit the scope or operation of the law

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Socratic method

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By asking hard and dangerous questions about what the Athenians thought they knew

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Sophists

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Claimed to be in the know: aligned with politicians more interested in persuasion than truth