philosophy revision glossary of key terms 3.0 / 5 based on 2 ratings ? Religious StudiesPhilosophyAS Created by: Kat BamberCreated on: 26-04-12 16:31 Priori thinking: thinking something through using logic Sense experience: thinking through your senses A posteriori: an after experience, working things out through empirical thinking Empirical: thinking by the body. Form: can also be an ideal, the eternal of what a thing is. Form of the good: highest form, source of other forms Omnipotent: all powerful Omniscient: all knowing Omnipresent: present always Omni Benevolent: all loving Transcendent: God is beyond human comparison. Creatio ex nihilo: creation from nothing Decalouge: the ten commandments (ten words) Theophancy: appearance of God in human form Benevolent dictator: treating his people as his children Absolute rule: one rule that has to be obeyed 1 of 2 Universal rule: one rule that is followed by everyone. Parable: a story Jesus told to give across teachings Anthropomorphic: human like Ockham's razor: simplest explanation is normally the most plausible. Privatio bori: lack of goodness A Necessary truth must be true; A Contingent truth is true as it happens, but didn't have to be true. Analytic statements are true by definition Synthetic statements are a posteriori, and is true if the value can be determined empirically by using observation and experience Micro Evolution: when evolution happens within a species Macro Evolution: when evolution happens within and between different species Micro Management: when good controls everything that happens. The categorical imperative: sense of moral duty Absolute: a universal law Summum bonum: the greatest/ highest good 2 of 2
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