Inductive arguments - key terms

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A posteriori
A statement that is based on actual observation, evidence, experimental data or experience - relates to inductive reasoning
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Cosmological and teleological arguments
Two examples of inductive arguments that use the evidence of, and within, the universe to attempt to prove the existence of the God of Classical Theism
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Empircally
Using knowledge gained through the experiences of any of the five senses
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Inductive proof
Argument constructed on evidence and/or experience that puts forward a possible conclusion based on these
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Posit
To put forward, or state, a fact or belief, usually as the basis for an argument or conclusion
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Actuality
When something is in its fully realised state
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Efficient cause
The 'third party' that moves potentiality to actuality
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Potentiality
The ability to be able to become something else
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Intermediate cause
This refers to a cause that relies on something else to have triggered it
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Ultimate cause
In the sense of Aquinas' writings, this is the end cause in the sequence that could not have occurred had there not been preceding efficient and intermediate causes
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Contingent
Anything that depends on something else (in the case of a contingent being, it is contingent upon another being for its existence, e.g. a child is contingent on its parent)
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Necessary being
Aquinas' contention that a non-contingent being is necessary for contingent beings to exist; it is this necessary being that is the source of all existence for all other contingent beings
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Actual infinite
Something that is actually infinite - it literally has no beginning and no end
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Apologist
An individual who writes or speaks in defence of a particular cause or belief
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Potential infinite
The potential infinite is something that could continue on, were effort to be applied, e.g. it would be possible to always continue a number line, or we could always come up with a bigger number (if we wanted to)
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Temporal
Things relating to time
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Fallacy of composition
Philosophical notion that what is true of the parts is not necessarily true of the whole (i.e. atoms are colourless but this does not mean everything that is made of atoms is colourless)
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God of Classical Theism
The God that is generally associated with the Western monotheistic religions of Christianity, Islam and Judaism
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Two examples of inductive arguments that use the evidence of, and within, the universe to attempt to prove the existence of the God of Classical Theism

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Cosmological and teleological arguments

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Using knowledge gained through the experiences of any of the five senses

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Argument constructed on evidence and/or experience that puts forward a possible conclusion based on these

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To put forward, or state, a fact or belief, usually as the basis for an argument or conclusion

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