Created by holly newman
about 7 years ago
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Question | Answer |
what is a posteriori argument? | An argument that has evidence that has evidence that already exists |
what is a priori argument? | it has no evidence and is hypothetical/ based on reason |
what is an analytic argument? | an argument that is true by definition |
what is a synthetic argument? | you have to see it to believe it |
what is an inductive argument? | there is more than one conclusion |
what is a deductive argument? | an argument with only one conclusion |
what is Aquinas's first way? | the argument from change. 1) everything is observed to change 2) nothing changes itself, anything observed to change is caused to by something else 3) that thing in turn is caused to change by something else, series must have been started by something 4) there is an original unchanging initiator of this series of events, this must be God |
what is a premises? | a statement |
what is an analogy? | when a similarity is suggested between two things- between something we know and something new and unknown |
what is the anthropic principle? | modern version of the design argument by F.R Tennant that argues that God designed the world so that everything was right for human life to develop. |
what is the teleological (design) argument? | the argument that God designed the universe because everything is so perfect that it could not have happened by chance. |
who was William Paley? | He made a design argument inspired by Aquinas. |
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