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Understanding the Times Unit 2
Understanding the Times Unit 2
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Religious Studies
11th Grade
02/06/2013

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Ontology
Definition
Study of the existence of being - what we mean when we say something exists
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Sir John Eccles
Definition
Said "Having a mind means one is conscious and that consciousness is a mental event not a material one."
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Jean Francois Lytard
Definition
Said "metanarrative is incredulous"
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Cosmology
Definition
Study of the structure , origin, and design of the universe.
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V.I. Lenin
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Said "Matter is primary nature. Sensation, thought, consciousness are the highest products of matter organized in a certain way."
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C.S. Lewis
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Said "In science we have been reading the notes of the poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself."
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Carl Sagan
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Said "the cosmos is all that is or ever was or all that will be."
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Mind/Body
Definition
Study of the relationship of the mind to the physical body
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Frederick Engels
Definition
Believes the world is not to be comprehended as a complex of ready-made things, but as a complex of evolutionary processes
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Epistemology
Definition
Study of knowledge-what we mean when we say we know something
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W.J. Niedhardt
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Said "Faith correctly viewed is that illumination by which true rationality begins."
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Metaphysics
Definition
Study of ultimate reality - how reality works and how it is organized
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Karl Marx
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Said "As long as we actually observe and think, we cannot possibly get away from materialism."
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Joseph Campbell
Definition
Said "What's the meaning of the universe?... It's just there. That's it. And your own meaning is that you're there."
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Richard Rorty
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Said "truth is whatever his community of scholars allows him to get away with."
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Faulty Dilemma
Definition
There are only a certain number of options and you must choose between the,.
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Appeal to Pity
Definition
Invoking the listener to feel sorry for the individual or group for whom one is arguing.
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False Cause
Definition
A person believes that just because one thing followed another there must be a causal connection.
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Ad Hominem
Definition
Instead of dealing with what a person is arguing, someone attacks his or her character.
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Equivocation
Definition
Use different definitions for the same word or when a word is taken a different way than meant.
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Appeal to Tradition
Definition
One appeals to either what is old, or to what is new in the attempt to establish the truth.
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Hasty Generalization
Definition
A person gathers too little information to support the conclusion being argued.
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False Analogy
Definition
It compares two objects that are actually relevantly dissimilar.
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Appeal to Ignorance
Definition
Just because there is no proof against your position does not prove your position is true.
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Straw Man
Definition
A person misrepresents another's view so as to easily discredit it.
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