Philosophy: Philosophical Terminology

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1. A conceptual investigation of fundamental issues. What is Philosophy? What is Pragmatism? What is Philology? What is Post-Modernism?

2. The questions - 'What makes right actions right? What are the right actions?' - are questions related to what branch of philosophy, which deals with the question of value? Axiology Epistemology Esthetics Metaphysics

3. What branch of philosophy studies knowledge? Divinology Axiology Epistemology Metaphysics

4. Knowledge gained prior to birth and recollected through reason is associated with what type of philosophy? Consequentialism Rationalism Determinism Empiricism

5. Knowledge gained through our five senses. What is divine knowledge? What is a priori knowledge? What is empirical knowledge? What is intuitive knowledge?

6. What is the view that events are predetermined by an impersonal force or power, and cannot be altered by human action? Hard Determinism Karma Fatalism Determinism

7. What is the view that the universe operates like a machine according to the law of cause and effect? Interactionism Machinism Mechanism Toolism

8. What is the view that there is a purpose, goal or final cause to the universe and that it all contributes to achieving an outcome? Teleology Theodicy Theology Theocracy

9. What is the moral theory holding that the value of an action resides in its utility or use for the production of pleasure or happiness? Consequentialism Positivism Deontology Utilitarianism

10. A cannot be A and not A in the same respect and at the same time. Law of Contrary Opposition Law of Relative Opposition Law of Privative Opposition Law of Noncontradiction

11. The assumption that one God is the infinite, unitary, all-powerful, perfectly good and self-existing. Agnostism Monotheism Atheism Fantasy-worldism

12. The reality that there is no god in existence, but that the concept of God only exists in the mind and nowhere else. Atheism Agnostism Theism Realism

13. A Platonic Theory that concepts exist in perfect form within the intelligible world. Theory of Perfections Theory of Forms Theory of Concepts Theory of God

14. A 20th Century movement that reflects on the existence of human beings in the real world. Existentialism Foundationalism Post-Modernism Interactionism

15. A moral theory that the highest greatest good is pleasure. Egoism Hedonism Nihilism Conventionalism