Vocabulary List:
(definitions from http://www.m-w.com)
- God: The definition for this one as it relates to philosophy is the ones that you
are looking for. So I will venture to say that God may be defined as the typical
"all powerful, all seeing, all knowing" type; your traditional catholic religious,
vengeful God. The other definition for God may be the one as were being
hammered out by the philosophers. This atypical God was the Rational God.
One of pure reason, deus ex machina type.
- A Priori: initial forethought. (I.e.: cognition is a priori when it has a source or
origin which is independant of sense experiences.)
- Synthetic: A situation where the predicate cannot be judged out of the subject.
For example, a situation where a statement made is not a rehashing of the fact
in the subject.
- Analytic: A judgement where nothing is added to the context of the subject.
Something that adds nothing to the concept of the subject. For example, all
skies are blue, adds nothing to the concept of sky. It's just rehashing something
which is already known.
- A Posteriori: Denotes a type of knowledge that is ex post facto in a way. For
example, something that can only be known through previous events, or
existing causes or empirical reasoning.
- Transcendental Idealism: According to Kant, everything that we know/see is
nothing but appearances. They do not exist except outside of our minds.
- Rationalism: A division of philosophy that deals mainly with a priori views, which
includes the concept of humans knowing everything when they are born; such
that the point of experiencing them is to remember that knowledge. The
rationalist looks to pure reason for basis of all knowledge.
- Empiricism: A division of philosophy that deals mainly with a posteriori views,
which includes the concept of humans born tabula rase. The whole point of
experiencing something is to learn it for the first time. The empiricist looks to
pure hard facts for the basis of all knowledge.
- Apodeictic: expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty