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15 Cards in this Set
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Theism
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the belief in one God as the creator and ruler of the universe, without rejection of revelation.
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Agnosticism
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a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
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Atheism
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the doctrine or belief that there is no God.
If God exists (if theism is true), how many are there? |
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Monotheism
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the doctrine or belief that there is only one God.
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Polytheism
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the doctrine of or belief in more than one god or in many gods.
If one God exists, what sort of God is it? |
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Personal Theism
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God that cares and has a will
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Deism
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belief in a God who created the world but has since remained indifferent to it.
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Pantheism
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the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.
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Empiricism
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the doctrine that all knowledge is derived from sense experience
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A priori
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valid independently of observation.
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A posteriori
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based upon actual observation or upon experimental data
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Analytic
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pertaining to or proceeding by analysis
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Synthetic
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of, pertaining to, proceeding by, or involving
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Monism
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The doctrine that mind and matter are formed from, or reducible to, the same ultimate substance or principle of being.
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Dualism
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the philosophical theory that regards matter and its motions as constituting the universe, and all phenomena, including those of mind, as due to material agencies.
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