Hard to Memorize Flashcards
(8 cards)
1
Q
Plotinus’ hierarchy (emmanationism)
A
- The one
- The spirit
- The soul
- Nature
Most inferior at the bottom
2
Q
Time and God
A
The past: Remembering
The future: Anticipating using past experience
The present: Current sensory experience
3
Q
Seven interior senses of Avicenna
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- Ability to use this information
- Ability to remember outcomes of past events
- Estimative power
- Compositive human imagination
- Compositive animal imagination
- Retentive imagination
- Common sense
4
Q
Aquinas’ 5 proofs to verify gods existence
5 of them
A
- The argument from motion
- someone had to start the world
- The argument from efficient cause
- everything is caused by something
- The argument from necessity
- everything depends on something for its existence so there must be something that isn’t and started everything
- The argument from gradation
- we grade everything so there must be something best
- The teleological argument
- everything has a purpose and someone must have designed it this wayt
5
Q
4 themes of the renaissance
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-Individualism
-Personal religon
-Interest in reading Greek and Roman writings
-Anti-Aristotelianism
6
Q
Principles of newtonian science
Six of them
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- deism
- material world is governed only by laws, with no exceptions
- no place for purpose in natural law
- occam’s razor should be accepted
- natural laws are absolute but scientists may have to settle for probabilities because their understanding is imperfect
- classification is not explanation
- prevalent in clinical psychology
7
Q
4 sources of error for Bacon
A
- Idols of the cave
- Personal biases from feelings etc.
- Idols of the tribe
- Biases from human nature
- Idols of the marketplace
- Biases from overemphasizing the meaning of words
- Idols of the theatre
- Biases from blind allegiance to anything
8
Q
Two kinds of experiments for Bacon
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Experiments of light: understanding causal connections. Experiments of fruit: exploring how we can use laws
