Comparison, e.g. Paley uses the watch and the watchmaker analogy for the design argument
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Inductive argument
starts with a conclusion then moves from specific instances into a generalised conclusion
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A posteriori
Argument based upon past observations
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Natural Theology
The name of Paley's book
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David Hume
Causes and effects are discoverable not by reason, but by experience
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William Paley
Design argument
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Immanuel Kant
Order is imposed
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Charles Darwin
Theory of evolution
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Thomas Aquinas
Cosmological argument
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First way
All thing move, something must move it, that thing is the unmoved mover, otherwise known as God
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Third way
Everything is contingent on something, there must be a necessary being, that being is God
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Contingency
Reliant upon something
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Necessity
Being required
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Transendant
God is above and beyond everything
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Ex nihilio
To become from nothing
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Fallacy of composition
when one infers that something is true of the whole from the fact that it is true of some part of the whole, for example, This tire is made of rubber, therefore the vehicle to which it is a part is also made of rubber
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Brute fact
Facts that cannot be explained
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Bertrand Russell
Analytic philosophy
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Agnostic
Believes in the theory of God but not of God himself/itself
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St Anselm
Ontological Argument
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A priori
Logical deduction before anything is seen
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Deductive
Using reasoning to draw a logical conclusion
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Reduction ad Absurdum
Reduction to absurdity
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Predicate
Asert sentence
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
Front
Comparison, e.g. Paley uses the watch and the watchmaker analogy for the design argument
Back
Analogy
Card 3
Front
starts with a conclusion then moves from specific instances into a generalised conclusion
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