1.1 Ancient Greek Influences - Key Terms Flashcards
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Epistemology
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Rationalist
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Someone who thinks that the primary source of knowledge is reason
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Empiricist
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Someone who thinks that the primary source of knowledge is experience gained through the five senses
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A-Posteriori Knowledge
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A-Priori Knowledge
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Forms
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A name Plato gave to ideal concepts
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World of Forms
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Form of the Good
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Soul
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Demiurge
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Prime Mover
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Aristotle’s concept of the ultimate cause of movement and change in the universe
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Potentiality
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Actuality
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Motus
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Aetion
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An explanatory factor, a reason or cause for something
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Material cause
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Efficient cause
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Formal cause
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Final cause
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Theory of Causation
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Unmoved mover
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Pure actuality
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Fallacy of Composition
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Socratic method
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The method of philosophical reasoning which involves critical questioning
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Transcendent
Being beyond this world and outside the realms of ordinary experience
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Dualism
The belief that reality can be divided into two distinct parts (such as good and evil or physical and non physical)
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Telos
The end or purpose of something
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Theist
Someone who believes in a God or gods
