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1
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Rationalist

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Reason is the ultimate source of knowledge

2
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Empiricist

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All knowledge comes from the senses

3
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Materialist

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Everything made from matter - when matter is rearranged it doesn’t exsist

4
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Category Error

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Confusing things from different categories (Ryle said descartes made one in trying to compare the mind and body)

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ex nihlo

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from nothing

6
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Anthropomorphises God

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Reducing God to be like a human

7
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numinous experience

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Can’t describe what happened but can describe feelings surrounding it