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Philosophy
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08/15/2015

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True or False: worldwide, chiropractic is a separate and distinct healing art and profession?
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true
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True or False: the main goal of chiropractic is to allievate pain when the patient comes in for the visit?
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false
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What is the main goal of chiropractic care?
Definition
to eliminate vertical subluxation
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Chiropractic is based on what type of philosophy?
Definition
vitalistic philosophy of life and health
Term
Every living thing has the inborn ability to direct and regulate its own internal physiology, adaptation, and healing, and thereby create its own health naturally from within, chiropractors call this what?
Definition
innate intelligence
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Chiropractic focuses mainly on
a) the spine
b) the nerve system
c) the relationship between the spine and the nerve system
d) treating headaches and back pain
e) helping people live a healthy lifestyle
Definition
C) the relationship between the spine and the nervous system
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In human beings innate intelligence is expressed how?
Definition
the dynamic balance of physiology, homeostasis, adaptation, and healing by nerve messages transmitted from the body to the brain and from the brain to the body over the nervy system.
Term
The nerve system includes what?
Definition
spinal cord that passes from the skull down through the spinal column, and the spinal nerves that pass from the spinal cord to the rest of the body b/t the spinal vertebrae
Term
A misalignment or biomechanical malfunction within the spinal column that affects the nerve tissue passing through the spinal column, altering the nerve messages traveling to and from the brain over the nerve system?
Definition
vertebral subluxation
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True or False: Vertebral subluxations can occur anywhere in the spine?
Definition
true
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Where are vertebral subluxations most harmful and particularly prevalent?
Definition
upper cervical spine
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True or False: Your body cannot correct vertebral subluxations?
Definition
false
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the overall process for a chiropractor of a vertebral subluxation for a chiropractor is?
Definition
identifying and chracterizing and the reduction or correction of the subluxation
Term
What is unique to chiropractic and what defines the chiropractic' primary clinical objective?
Definition
giving a person an adjustment
Term
The best chiropractic adjustment techniques are what?
Definition
the ones that can be demonstrated to promote the reduction or correction of vertebral subluxations safely, efficiently, and economically in any and all persons
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True or False: chiropractors are trained in things such as visual postural assessments, spinal palpation, leg length assessment, para-spinal, instrumentation readings, and/or x-rays?
Definition
true
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When should a spinal adjustment be given?
Definition
when there is evidence of a vertebral subluxation
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Should a person receive an adjustment every time they go to a chiropractor?
Definition
no
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Chiropractic care should only occur when the patient is in pain?
Definition
no
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True or False: you have to be relatively healthy to have your spine adjusted?
Definition
false
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True or False: chiropractic care should be given to treat a disease or alleviate pain?
Definition
false
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What is the best way for a patient's body to heal?
Definition
natural healing as an obstructed expression of the body's own innate intelligence
Term
True or False: with innate intelligence natural healing the body will immediately feel better and it will happen faster?
Definition
false
Term
What are the two interactive models of studying our world?
Definition
philosophy
science
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Which interactive methods of studying our world is deductive reasoning based?
Definition
philosophy
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Which interactive method of studying our world is inductive reasoning based?
Definition
science
Term
The study of the laws and causes underlying reality, leading to an understanding of its fundamental nature?
Definition
philosophy as a discipline
Term
This discipline asks why, what are the ramifications,
judges the value/worth of knowledge
justifies the value of our actions?
Definition
philosophy
Term
Philosophy "the mother of science" turns synthesis of knowledge into ____?
Definition
wisdom
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The study of the patterns, processes, and mechanisms of reality, leading to an understanding of how it works?
Definition
science as a discipline
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Science as a discipline asks what?
Definition
what happens, how does it happen
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True or False: science tends to define values?
Definition
false
Term
study parts/pieces?
Definition
reductionistic process
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True or False: science can confirm or disprove philosophic models?
Definition
true
Term
Based on what we know and thus can always be expanded, challenged, redirected or even negated by the accumulation of scientific knowledge?
Definition
philosophy
Term
will tend to answer any question we ask, but what questions we ask, and what we do with the answers is driven mainly by our philosophic models and the values they create?
Definition
science
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Philosophy works through what reasoning?
Definition
deductive
Term
"to pull out of"
to derive meaningful conclusions from general principles through logical reasoning?
Definition
deduction
Term
If a major premise states that all humans have the capacity to heal themselves
the minor premise states you are a human being
Therefore the logical conclusion would be?
Definition
you can heal yourself
Term
Can't be proved it is an assumption
accepted a priori as true for the purpose of reasoning from it?
Definition
the major premise
Term
May be another assumption or a fact
must lie withing the scope of the major premise
should also be true or accepted as true?
Definition
the minor premise
Term
the art or skill of necessarily correct reasoning, the "non contradictory identification of things in existence"
Definition
the logical operation
Term
inherent, self-evident relationship between meaningful statements
well formalized
Definition
deductive logic
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What is the actual point of integrative reasoning?
Definition
logical relationship
Term
new understanding derived (deduced) from prior knowledge (premises)
Definition
the conclusion
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Can the conclusion be true or false?
Definition
yes
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Strengths of deductive reasoning?
Definition
can allow us to reason beyond our experience
certainty of/ confidence in our conclusions
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Limitations of deductive reasoning?
Definition
quality of assumptions- are they true?
quality of logic- is it valid?
deduction is not self-testing
Term
Science works through what reasoning?
Definition
inductive
Term
"to pull into"
to derive meaningful conclusion from specific experiences through comparative logic?
Definition
induction
Term
what are the two types of inductive reasoning?
Definition
informal
formal
Term
learn from personal observation
recognize patterns of similarity
what inductive reasoning is this?
Definition
informal
Term
create controlled experience
collect specific data
apply inductive logic
what type of inductive reasoning is this?
Definition
formal
Term
The question being explored?
helps determine experiment and data
Definition
hypothesis
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controlled, formalized experience
must be well described and replicatable
must involve a control and variable group?
Definition
experiment
Term
statistical analysis of comparison between control/variable data?
Definition
inductive logic
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True or False: inductive logic is more formalized that deductive logic?
Definition
false
Term
not certain, tend to support or negate the hypothesis
stated in terms of probabilities/ "statistical significance"?
Definition
conclusions
Term
Strengths of inductive reasoning?
Definition
relevance
self-correcting
very knowledge expansive
Term
Limitations of inductive reasoning?
Definition
incompleteness of data
validity of inductive logic
uncertainty of conclusions
Term
The study of the laws and causes underlying reality, leading to an understanding of its fundamental nature?
Definition
philosophy
Term
What are two basic human characteristics?
Definition
consciousness
curiosity
Term
Survival actions are based on what two things?
Definition
thinking
modeling
Term
Development begins with what?
Definition
indoctrination
Term
True or False: development continues through life?
Definition
true
Term
Pre-critical programming of the mind
ex. parents, church, school, society
Definition
the unexamined philosophy
Term
critical responsibility of the mature mind: most accurate view of the world possible
ex. self-awareness, experience, study, testing
Definition
the examined philosophy
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Who first formed deductive philosophy?
Definition
Greeks
Term
The Greeks idealized deduction as what?
Definition
pure reason
Term
The Greeks dismissed induction as?
Definition
mundane
Term
The study of the essential nature of reality?
Definition
metaphysics
Term
The evaluation of human relationships
it sets the norms/values
Definition
normative sciences
Term
the relationships b/t people and other people (including politics- the study of social action)
Definition
ethics
Term
the relationship b/t people and objects?
Definition
aesthetics
Term
the relationship b/t people and knowledge (including logic)
Definition
epistemology
Term
What would be considered an ethical question?
Definition
what is normal?
Term
This thought process led to music, then mathematics?
Definition
aesthetics
Term
What criteria of truth we accept?
Definition
validity
Term
study of the methods, limits, and validity of knowledge?
Definition
epistemology
Term
this asks what does it mean to exist?
Definition
metaphysics
Term
basic principle of belief?
Definition
doctrine
Term
reality can be understood by reference to matter and its properties exclusively?
earliest metaphysical doctrine
Definition
materialism
Term
mind/spirit is the source of reality
matter is just a transient creation of mind
Definition
idealism
Term
Reality has two elements (mind and matter) and functions on two levels (mentally and physically)
Definition
dualism
Term
According to conscious naturalism what gives form?
Definition
consciousness (immaterial)
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According to conscious naturalism what expresses form?
Definition
matter/energy (material)
Term
According to conscious naturalism what links consciousness/matter?
Definition
force (interaction)
Term
materialism, idealism, dualism are ____ matephysical doctrines?
Definition
cosmological
Term
life can be completely explained by the actions of physical chemical and electrical forces alone?
Definition
mechanism
Term
life and its functions depend on a vital influence which differs in kind from all physical, chemical, and electrical forces?
Definition
vitalism
Term
derived from (scientific) materialism
reaction to antiscientific theological doctrines
embodied in the "central dogma" of biology
life is nothing more than complex carbon chemistry
Definition
mechanism
Term
derived from dualism
life is chemistry animated by consciousness
inclusive doctrine
Definition
vitalism
Term
matter evolves, then spirit animates it
ex. build a car, then driver enters
Definition
extreme vitalism
Term
immaterial co-evolves w/physical structure
vital force continuously involved in the process
Definition
moderate (aka critical) vitalism
Term
What is basic Chiropractic doctrine?
Definition
triune of life
Term
Chiropractic is a form of what type of vitalism?
Definition
moderate/critical
Term
Chiropractic's major premise is based on what?
Definition
doctrine of conscious naturalism
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