COPPLESTON vs RUSSELL - keywords
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- Created on: 14-02-14 22:20
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- Copleston vs Russell (keywords)
- analytic
- True by definition
- Aquinas' Third Way
- If everything were contingent, there could have been a time when nothing existed. Therefore, there must be a necessary being which caused everything
- aseity
- self generating i.e. uncasued
- Bertrand Russell
- British philosopher and atheist
- Brute fact
- Russell's arument that "The universe is just there and that is all"
- contingency
- Rely on something else for existence
- dogmatic
- Expressing strongly held beliefs; relating to dogma (teachings of the Catholic Church
- Frederik Copleston
- Jesuit priest, professor of History of Philosophy
- Gottfried Leibniz
- 17th century German philosopher and mathematician
- gratuitous
- Unnecessary and unjustifiable
- illegitimate
- Not correctly reasoned
- impasse
- A point at which no further progress can be made or agreement reacheed
- infinity
- Limitless time,space or distance
- parity
- Similarity between things
- Principle of Sufficient Reason
- There is an explanation for everything
- Quantifier Shift Fallacy
- You cannot move from particulars to a general principle
- tautology
- A statement that is, in itself, logically true
- analytic
- Limitless time,space or distance
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