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Contingent= dependent on others
Antonym= Necessary |
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Organic= Living
Inorganic= Nonliving |
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Sentient= having 5 senses
Nonsentient= Unaware of 5 senses |
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Rational
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Rational=having reason within
Nonrational=without reason
Irrational=Acting contrary to reason |
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| Short version of Human Spirit |
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| The power to transcend limits within mathematical infinity |
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| Long version of Human Spirit |
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| The power to engage in creative discovery and attainment in mathematical infinity. |
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| Our possession of the power of human spirit manifests itself as our ability to engage in what two limit transcending actives? |
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| Reason & Freedom of Choice |
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| Our power of reason using past experiences to explain a present problem |
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| to experience directly through our five senses. |
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| To experience indirectly through inference |
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| Two types of Verification |
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1. Experimentally on Empirical Level; Absolute Certainty.
2.Experientially on Transempirical Level; Relative certainty |
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| Verify existence of transempirical realities |
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| With reason and inferences through freedom of choice |
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| From absolutely nothing comes nothing |
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| Every effect dimly resembles or reveals something about its cause |
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| Absolute short and long def |
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| Short= total Long= free from limits |
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| Relative short and long def |
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| Short=partial; Long= bound by limits |
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| Explain how phil. would verify that we poses freedom of choice? |
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| They would refer to a painful experience that infer to them, personally, that they have freedom of choice. |
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| 5 of Metaphysical & Mathematical |
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Metaphysical=Actual, Absolute, Eternal, Transempirical, Total-Complete
Mathematical=potential, relative, temporal, empirical, partial incomplete |
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| we are always aware that we have a polar relationship with the world which always is encompassing us. |
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| Two laws & four steps to verify God |
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Two Laws:Law of Nothingness,Law of Causality
Steps: 1. The undeniable fact of the universe
2. They remember that from absolutely nothing comes nothing.
3.They recognize that the universe is an undeniable effect that must have a cause
4. They recongnize that the ultimate cause of the finite universes cannot be one of the 'caused causes' which are finite parts of the universe but must be the uncaused caused who transcends and absolutely encompases the universe. |
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| absolutely nothing at all |
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| a potential being; before we were beings we were potential beings |
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| What prevents absol. nonbeing from annihilating all finite and contingent beings? Evidence? |
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| They think Absolute Being, or God, prevents absolute nonbeing from consuming all being. |
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| Two kinds of belief? Which one commands respect and why? |
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| Verified belief and unverified belief. Verified belief commands respect because it is more certain than unverified because unverified is just an opinion. |
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| Why are we considered 'microcosms'? |
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| We are considered microcosms, or a little universe, because we are the final step of evolution and we are the only beings that can reason. |
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