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55 Cards in this Set
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Concept created by the mind that takes into account only selected characteristics of a set of objects that are thought to belong to the same class.
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Abstraction
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Suspension of speculation and judgement about things that cannot be known.
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Agnosticism
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Not dependent upon experience
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A priori
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One of the four basic sources of knowledge in epistemology; knowledge we accept on the authority of others.
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Authority
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Compacity of the individual to make valid choices of his behavior and the light of his needs; compacity for self-determination.
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Autonomy
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The study of values, their origin, and nature.
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Axiology
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Unthinking; acceptance of and idea or system of ideas.
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Belief
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Assumption that certain events cause subsequent events.
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Causality
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A truth test stating that any fact claim that coheres to previously accepted facts can be considered true.
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Coherence test
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If there is a high degree of correspondence between an idea or statement and an event, then the concept can be considered true.
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Correspondence test
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If an idea or statement "works" the the idea or statement can be considered true.
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Pragmatic test
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Drawing out the implications of one or more premises or statements; the necessrily follow from the premises.
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Deduction
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Every event in the universe has a prior cause and all the affects are at least theoretically predicable or all the causes are known.
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Determinism
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The qualtities without which any particular object/event would not exist or be a distinctly different object/event.
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Essence
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One's experience of vivid concrete reality in the living present. Being profoundly aware that one is.
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Existence
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An idea or statement about which one can feel a high degree of certainty because it still stands of ever been doubted and then subjected to logical and emperical analysis.
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Fact
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Any idea submitted candidate for consideration as an item of human knowledge.
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Fact claim
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Every event of our lives is predetermined and no amount of effort on our part will ever change or make a difference.
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Fatalism
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Theory that human will is free to make authentic choices that are not pre-determined.
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Free Will
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Theory that reality is primarily mental rather than material.
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Idealism
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The process of developing generalized explanations, hypothesis or laws from a collection of facts.
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Induction
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An idea that the mind is forced to create after having seen the implications of certain propositions.
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Inference
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The source of knowledge apparantly produced through the activity of the sub-conscience.
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Intuition
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ANy world view that proports to reduce all existence to a single order of reality.
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Monism
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The uncritical acceptance of one's sense data as representing accurately the nature of the real world.
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Naive Realism
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In epestemiology, the doctrine that nothing is knowable or worth knowing.
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Nihilism
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Exstinction of the consciousness; better descrbed as an experience of wholeness, peace and joy; the goal of Hinduism and Buddhism.
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Nirvana
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The simplest explanation is the best.
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Occam's Razor
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Greek word meaning soul. The objectified form of the self; pysche soul.
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Pysche
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The doctrine that everything is composed of or contains mind or soul.
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Panpsychism
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Doctrine that God is all.
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Pantheism
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Mind/body
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Soma
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The first stage result of the mind's organization of sense data.
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Percept
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Human condition in which an idea must be believed to be true in terms of correspondence; that is one must be convinced that some object/event exists as a real intity.
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Pragmatic Paradox
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School of phylosophy that wanted to work on solving more pressing human problems than metaphysical speculations. According to pragmatists, truth is tentativa and forever changing.
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Pragmatism
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Having knowledge of an event suppossedly before it happens.
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Precognition
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Freedom from subjective limitations, thereby enabling one to make authentic choices; freedom from primal limitations.
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Primal feedom
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The doctrine that God has already determined whethere each human soul will be saved or lost, or that every singular event of existence will occue as planned.
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Predestination
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A mental construct containing all the objects/events that one has classed together according to selecting common properties; and abstraction.
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Concept
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Our most dependable information derives from reason rather than from emperical observation.
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Rationalism
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To be real is to exist apart from perception.
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Real/realism/reality
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The mental process of using known facts to arrive at new facts; the activity of inferring conclusions to premises.
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Reason
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In Zin Buddhism, it's the moment of awakening; a holistic feeling of mystical oneness.
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Satori
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The compacity to make genuine choices without being limited by external restrictions.
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Secondary Freedom
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The study of total response of human organisms to symbols of all sorts; the study or words and their meanings.
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Semantics
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The immediate response of the senses to stimuli.
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Sensation
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Immediate sensory responses as registered in consciousness.
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Sense data
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In epistemology, and attitude of doubt.
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Skepticism
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The doctrine that only "I" exist.
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Solipisism
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Refers to the subject that experiences as opposed to the object that is experienced.
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Subjective
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Refers to whatever exists in the real world apart from our perception of it.
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Objective
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It's the "way" in Chinese religion to sort-of cosmic pathway that lies between or within interactions of the energy modes yin and yang.
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Tao
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For any object moving at great velocities relative to the speed of light, time would slow down. Einstein's theory of relativity.
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Time Dilation
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A quality possessed by ideas and statements; a quality that is of value to a philosopher only after having carefully checked with one or more of the truth tests.
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Truth
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In logic, the term referring to a conclusion that has been correctly inferred from specific premises. Validity does not equal truth.
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Valid
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