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The view that some human actions are chosen and performed by the agent without there being any sufficient condition or cause of the action prior to the action itself.
(free to make your own decision) |
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The view that for every event which happens, there are previous events and circumstances which are its sufficient condition or cause of the action prior to the action itself.
(you are not free- certain things led up to you inevitably doing something) |
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(soft determinism)
There is no logical inconsistency between free will and determinism, and that is possible that human beings are free and responsible for their actions even though these actions are casually determines. |
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| Everything that is real is physical. (some naturalists call themselves Christians or atheists. All we are are chemical processes (machines)) |
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| Physical properties are really properties of ideas. Ideas are "thoughts" or sense data which exist only in the mind of some person. |
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God and the universe are identical.
(this focuses not on divine being but universal presence) |
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| Agrees with pantheism that everything which exists is part of God but God has an identity of his own. |
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| the view that scientific theories are intended to be literally true, and accepting a theory involves believing that it gives a true description of reality. |
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| Scientific theories are not intended to be literally true, and accepting a theory requires us to believe only that its observational consequences are true. |
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| holds that physical objects really exist and really have the properties that we perceive them to have. |
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Realism Concerning Physical Objects |
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| physical objects really exist and their existence does not depend on there being minds to perceive them. |
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Realism Concerning Universals |
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| Affirms that such things as properties and attributes really exist "on their own" separate both from the objects which exemplify them and from the minds which apprehend them. |
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| Man is wholly material being. (both physical and mental attributes exist. Human beings are both body and person) |
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The body is an ordinary physical thing, following the same laws which govern nature in general, but it has no mental properties, no awareness of any kind. |
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Philosophical Behaviorism |
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Mental properties are a special category of physical properties that are behavioral properties of living organisms. |
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The soul exists and is one with the body. |
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The mind is grounded in the human biological organism but is not reduced to that organism. |
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A property which can only characterize an entity which is possessed of some kind of consciousness or awareness. |
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A property or attribute which can characterize an ordinary. |
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