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Flashcards by sinead.english, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by sinead.english
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| Question | Answer |
| What is the God of Classical Theism? | Eternal and separate from the universe. God created outside space and time. Only one God with attributes such an immutable, omnipotent and omniscient. |
| What is an efficient cause? | A cause that is capable of performing an action and bringing about the desired result. |
| Aristotle's dates? | 384-322 BC |
| Facts about St. Thomas Aquinas? | 1224-74 Wrote the Summa Theologica |
| What is Aquinas' first way about? | It is based on motion and also the need for external influence (wood and fire) |
| What is the second way about? | Cause and effect and the rejection of infinite regress. |
| What is the third way about? | It is about contingency. |
| What does contingency mean? | An even or condition that depends on something else, which many or may not happen. Things do not contain the reason for their own existence, but depend on external causes. |
| What does sufficient reason mean? | An adequate reason that explains the cause of an event, in this case the origin of the universe. |
| What does the fallacy of composition mean? | The error that concludes that since the parts have a certain property, the whole likewise has the property. |
| Who challenges the cosmological argument? | 1. David Hume 2. Immanuel Kant 3. Bertrand Russell |
| What does Anthony Kenny undermine? | He undermines Aquinas' first way related to motion and change. |
| Who spearheaded the steady-state theory? | Herman Bondi, Tommy Gold and Fred Hoyle. |
| What does actual infinite mean? | Sets or collections of things with an infinite number of members. It is not growing toward infinity, because it is infinite already. A part within an actually infinite set is equal to the whole set because it is infinite. |
| What is potential infinite? | Exists if it is always possible to add one more to a series of things or events. It is possible to think of the future as a potential infinite, because more events are always being added to history. |