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| Knowledge that is gained through the senses - from experience |
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| Knowledge that is gained through the mind rather than through the senses; an essential part of our character which we have from birth - knowledge based upon reasoning and logic |
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| The belief that humans are made of 2 distinct parts; the body and the soul/mind. The soul/mind is immaterial but the body is physical |
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| The idea of something - it is not physical but it is the eternal idea of what a thing is |
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| The highest form and the source of all the other forms |
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| Dependant on or interconnected with something else; not absolute |
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| Comparing one thing with another that is similar in order to help someone learn about the first thing (e.g. similies) |
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| Relating to teleology: the belief that everything has a purpose or ultimate cause |
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| The unchanging cause of all that exists - the first thing to cause other things, but that also caused itself; God |
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| Seperate from and completely distinct from the physical world |
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| Creation out of nothing - used in reference to God creating the universe from nothing |
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| Giving human qualities to something that is not human |
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| That which is right and wrong |
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| A relationship of obligation; a contract of agreement |
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| Something that is always 100% the same in every case - a never-changing rule or idea |
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| Concerned with being or existence; concerned with the being and nature of God |
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| Something which is not necessary but which depends on something else for its existence |
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| Something which is independant from everything else, and which is the cause and explanation of itself |
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| An argument made by reasoning not experience |
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| An arument made by experience and personal encounters |
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| A quality or property of something |
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| A statement that is true in itself; it does not make sense to ask if it is true (e.g. triangles have 3 sides) |
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| Describes a statement that has to be tested by sense experience to see if it is true or false (e.g. it is raining outside) |
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| Related to the aspect of philosophy that deals with the nature of the physical universe; motion, cause and contingency |
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| Going back and back infinitely |
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| Everything follows certain laws, which lead to certain results - predictable and unchanging ideas and rules |
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| The watch analogy - showing that the universe is so complex in design, like a watch that it is only logical it too would have a designer |
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| The idea that there is evidence of a designer in the regularity of the universe - the motion of the planets in the solar system and the gravity holding them in place |
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| The idea that animals with advantageous characteristics will help it and increase its amount of offspring therfore passing on the advantageous gene, whilst animals with disadvantageous characteristics will not help it and will kill off the animal before it has the chance to reproduce - therefore overall there are more animals with the advantageous gene |
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| A command to perform actions that are absolute moral obligations without any refernce to circumstances or consequences |
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| Having and showing good moral qualities and behaviour |
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| The supreme good or happiness that we achieve through doing our moral duty |
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| The idea that moral reasoning leads to an argument for God's existence |
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| A philisophical attempt to solve the problem of evil and prove God's existence |
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| The ability to make your own decisions and make free choices between possible actions |
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| The first sin, committed by Adam and Eve |
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| The distance that God must keep from us in order to ensure that we keep our free will |
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| Concerned with death, judgement and the final destiny of humankind - those who have not completed their development will continue their soul-making journey after death but may then enter the kingdom of heaven |
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| The explosion of dense matter that supposedly created the universe |
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| The belief in the literal interpretation of the account of the creation of the universeand of all living things as related in the Bible |
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| Applying to a single system of well-matched interacting parts that contribute to the basic function of the system, wherein the removal of any one of the parts causes the system to cease functioning |
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| An element of a culture or behaviour that may be passed from one individual to another by non-genetic means (e.g. imitation) |
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