ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT - keywords
- Created by: Anna
- Created on: 14-02-14 23:23
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- THE ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
- a priori
- something which is knowable before exerience
- analytic
- True by definition/statement incoherent to doubt
- contingent
- Depends on something else for its existence e.g. humans
- infinte
- Refers to something that has neither a beginning nor an end e.g. numbers
- necessary
- Something which has to be that way and cannot be different, whatever the circumstances
- ontological
- The being or nature of God, with relevance to Anselm's Ontological Argument
- ontos
- Greek word for "being"
- predicate
- A quality/property of an object or subject
- reductio ad absurdum
- Reduce to absurdity
- synthetic
- A statement/proposistion the truth or falsity of which has to be veriied
- a priori
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