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Philosophy GCSE
Fichas del conjunto (12)
- 1what is a posteriori argument?An argument that has evidence that has evidence that already exists
- 2what is a priori argument?it has no evidence and is hypothetical/ based on reason
- 3what is an analytic argument?an argument that is true by definition
- 4what is a synthetic argument?you have to see it to believe it
- 5what is an inductive argument?there is more than one conclusion
- 6what is a deductive argument?an argument with only one conclusion
- 7what 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 - 8what is a premises?a statement
- 9what is an analogy?when a similarity is suggested between two things- between something we know and something new and unknown
- 10what 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.
- 11what 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.
- 12who was William Paley?He made a design argument inspired by Aquinas.