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Synthetic?

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A statement which needs external evidence to verify if it is true/false

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Analytic?

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A statement that contains the truth needed to verify it within the statement itself

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Necessary?

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Holds the reason for its being within itself, cannot not exist

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Predicate?

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A quality or property of an object/subject

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Contingent?

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Depends on something else for its existence, can go in or out of existence

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Ockham’s Razor?

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Do not multiply entities beyond necessity; the simplest explanation is the best

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Infinite Regress?

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A chain of events going backwards forever

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Aquinas’ 5 Ways?

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Motion, Cause, Contingency, Morality, Design

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Telos?

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End result, purpose

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Design Qua Regularity?

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Design ‘as relating to’ the regular cycles and natural laws of the world

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Design Qua Purpose?

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Design ‘as relating to’ purpose

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Id, Ego, Superego?

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Desires, reasoning/ balancing of id/ superego shaped by external influences

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Postulate?

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A possible solution, assumption

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Summum Bonum?

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Highest good, where virtue and happiness coincide

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Oedipus Complex?

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Suppressed guilt from child wanting parent

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Epicurean Hypothesis?

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Given infinite time and infinite number of particles, order can be produced

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Fallacy of Composition?

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What is observed about the parts cannot be assumed to be the same for the whole

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Principle of Sufficient Reason?

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The complete and full explanation