Test two 2
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- Concept created by the mind that takes into account only selected characteristics of a set of objects that are thought to belong to the same class.
- Abstraction
- Suspension of speculation and judgement about things that cannot be known.
- Agnosticism
- Not dependent upon experience
- A priori
- One of the four basic sources of knowledge in epistemology; knowledge we accept on the authority of others.
- Authority
- Compacity of the individual to make valid choices of his behavior and the light of his needs; compacity for self-determination.
- Autonomy
- The study of values, their origin, and nature.
- Axiology
- Unthinking; acceptance of and idea or system of ideas.
- Belief
- Assumption that certain events cause subsequent events.
- Causality
- A truth test stating that any fact claim that coheres to previously accepted facts can be considered true.
- Coherence test
- If there is a high degree of correspondence between an idea or statement and an event, then the concept can be considered true.
- Correspondence test
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If an idea or statement "works" the the idea or statement can be considered true.
Developed by William James - Pragmatic test
- Drawing out the implications of one or more premises or statements; the necessrily follow from the premises.
- Deduction
- Every event in the universe has a prior cause and all the affects are at least theoretically predicable or all the causes are known.
- Determinism
- The qualtities without which any particular object/event would not exist or be a distinctly different object/event.
- Essence
- One's experience of vivid concrete reality in the living present. Being profoundly aware that one is.
- Existence
- An idea or statement about which one can feel a high degree of certainty because it still stands of ever been doubted and then subjected to logical and emperical analysis.
- Fact
- Any idea submitted candidate for consideration as an item of human knowledge.
- Fact claim
- Every event of our lives is predetermined and no amount of effort on our part will ever change or make a difference.
- Fatalism
- Theory that human will is free to make authentic choices that are not pre-determined.
- Free Will
- Theory that reality is primarily mental rather than material.
- Idealism
- The process of developing generalized explanations, hypothesis or laws from a collection of facts.
- Induction
- An idea that the mind is forced to create after having seen the implications of certain propositions.
- Inference
- The source of knowledge apparantly produced through the activity of the sub-conscience.
- Intuition
- ANy world view that proports to reduce all existence to a single order of reality.
- Monism
- The uncritical acceptance of one's sense data as representing accurately the nature of the real world.
- Naive Realism
- In epestemiology, the doctrine that nothing is knowable or worth knowing.
- Nihilism
- Exstinction of the consciousness; better descrbed as an experience of wholeness, peace and joy; the goal of Hinduism and Buddhism.
- Nirvana
- The simplest explanation is the best.
- Occam's Razor
- Greek word meaning soul. The objectified form of the self; pysche soul.
- Pysche
- The doctrine that everything is composed of or contains mind or soul.
- Panpsychism
- Doctrine that God is all.
- Pantheism
- Mind/body
- Soma
- The first stage result of the mind's organization of sense data.
- Percept
- Human condition in which an idea must be believed to be true in terms of correspondence; that is one must be convinced that some object/event exists as a real intity.
- Pragmatic Paradox
- School of phylosophy that wanted to work on solving more pressing human problems than metaphysical speculations. According to pragmatists, truth is tentativa and forever changing.
- Pragmatism
- Having knowledge of an event suppossedly before it happens.
- Precognition
- Freedom from subjective limitations, thereby enabling one to make authentic choices; freedom from primal limitations.
- Primal feedom
- The doctrine that God has already determined whethere each human soul will be saved or lost, or that every singular event of existence will occue as planned.
- Predestination
- A mental construct containing all the objects/events that one has classed together according to selecting common properties; and abstraction.
- Concept
- Our most dependable information derives from reason rather than from emperical observation.
- Rationalism
- To be real is to exist apart from perception.
- Real/realism/reality
- The mental process of using known facts to arrive at new facts; the activity of inferring conclusions to premises.
- Reason
- In Zin Buddhism, it's the moment of awakening; a holistic feeling of mystical oneness.
- Satori
- The compacity to make genuine choices without being limited by external restrictions.
- Secondary Freedom
- The study of total response of human organisms to symbols of all sorts; the study or words and their meanings.
- Semantics
- The immediate response of the senses to stimuli.
- Sensation
- Immediate sensory responses as registered in consciousness.
- Sense data
- In epistemology, and attitude of doubt.
- Skepticism
- The doctrine that only "I" exist.
- Solipisism
- Refers to the subject that experiences as opposed to the object that is experienced.
- Subjective
- Refers to whatever exists in the real world apart from our perception of it.
- Objective
- It's the "way" in Chinese religion to sort-of cosmic pathway that lies between or within interactions of the energy modes yin and yang.
- Tao
- For any object moving at great velocities relative to the speed of light, time would slow down. Einstein's theory of relativity.
- Time Dilation
- A quality possessed by ideas and statements; a quality that is of value to a philosopher only after having carefully checked with one or more of the truth tests.
- Truth
- In logic, the term referring to a conclusion that has been correctly inferred from specific premises. Validity does not equal truth.
- Valid