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29 Cards in this Set
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A posteriori |
Knowledge gained from experience |
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Anthropic argument |
A teleological argument that claims that nature has been planned in advance for the needs of human beings |
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St Thomas Aquinas |
13th century Dominican priest commonly regarded as the most influential philosopher and theologian of the Roman Catholic Church |
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Argument |
A set of statements which is such that one of them (the conclusion) is supported or implied by the others (the premises) |
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Beings |
Not just human beings but anything that has property |
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Classical theism |
The belief in a personal deity creator of everything that exists with distinct from that creation and is the Sustainer and preserver of the universe |
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Contingent beings |
Beings that depend upon something else for their existence they have the property that they need not be or could have been different |
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Cosmological argument |
Argument for the existence of God based on the existence of the Universe commonly associated with Aquinas concepts of motion causality contingency |
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William Lane Craig |
One of the proponents of the modern-day kalam aspect of the cosmological argument for the existence of God |
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Cumulative argument |
A collection of arguments which went Farm together present a stronger case then when the argument stands alone |
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Efficient cause |
That which causes change and motion to start and stop in many cases this is simply the thing that brings something about |
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Empiricism |
The view that the dominant Foundation of knowledge is experience |
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Ex nihilo |
Latin phrase meaning out of nothing refers to the belief that god did not use any previously existing material when he created us |
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Immanent |
Existing or remaining in theology refers to God's involvement in creation |
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Infinite regression |
A chain of causes or sequence of reasoning that can never come to an end |
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Intelligent design |
the view that an intelligent cause (which is not identified) accounts for certain features of the universe |
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Kalam argument |
A form of the cosmological argument that rests on the idea that the universe had a beginning in time |
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Gottfried Wilhelm leibniz |
17/18 century German philosopher and mathematician whose principle of sufficient reason supports the cosmological arguments for the existence of God |
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Motion |
In Aquinas first way of the cosmological argument it refers to the process by which an object requires a new |
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Natural selection |
A key mechanism of evolution it is the principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved and the traits pass onto the Next Generation |
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Necessary beings |
Beings which is the exist cannot not exist things which are not dependent on any other for their existence |
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William Paley |
18th century English clergyman and philosopher theme for his watchmaker analogy which forms part of the teleological argument for the existence of God |
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Principle of sufficient reason |
There is some sort of explanation known or unknown for everything |
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Probability |
The the likelihood of something happening or being true |
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Purpose |
The reason why something is in existence or being done |
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Qua |
A Latin word meaning according to or relating to |
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Teleological argument |
Argument for the existence of God based on observation of design and purpose in the world |
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Frederick Robert Tennant |
19th 20th century English philosopher who developed forms of aesthetic arguments to infer the existence of an intelligent designer behind the universe |
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Theistic |
That which pertains to God |
