Key Words - Traditional Arguments For Existence Of God Flashcards
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Synthetic
A statement which needs external evidence to verify if it’s true of false
Analytic
A statement that contains the thruth needed to verify it within itself
Necessary
Must exist, cannot not exist
Predicate
A quality or property of an object or subject
Contingent
Depends on something else for its existence
Can cease to exist
Infinite regress
A chain of events going backwards forever
Aquinas’ 5 ways
Motion, cause, contingency, morality, design
Telos
End result/ purpose
Design qua regularity
Design relating to the regular cycles and natural laws of the world
Eg. The law of gravity
Design qua purpose
Design relating to purpose
Eg. The human eye
Postulate
A possible solution; assumption
Summum bonum
Highest good, when virtue and happiness coincide
Oedipus complex
Suppressed guilt from child wanting mother
Epicurean hypothesis
Given infinite time and an infinite number of particles order can be produced
Fallacy of composition
What is observed about parts cannot be assumed to be the same for the whole
Principle of sufficient reason
The complete and full explanation of why there is something rather than nothing
Id
Ego
Superego
(Freud)
3 parts of the mind
Desire
Reasoning (balancing of the Id and superego)
Shaped by external influences (sense of ought)
