Ontologcal Argument

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What is a priori?
A priori is without refernce to experience
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What is a posteriori?
A posteriori is from or after experience
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What is an Inductive argument?
Inductive argumets are those which even if the premises are true then the conclusion does not have to follow on from the premises.
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What is a Deductive argument?
This is when the premises are noth true and they are followed by the final statement which is also true.
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What is an Analytic Statement?
This is a statement of which the truth value is determined by the definition of their concepts.
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What is a Synthetic statement?
This is a statement of which the truth value cannot be determined by the definition of their concepts.
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What is a necessary being?
A being that, if it exists, cannot not exist, whose non - existence would be a self-contradiction.
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What is a Contingent being?
That which need not be, that which could have been different: something that has dependency
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