RS Definitions

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A Posteriori
An argument formed that relies primarily on experience.
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A Priori
An argument based on logic and reasoning.
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Analytic
When something is evident or true within the argument and is necessarily true.
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Synthetic
A none contradictory statement or proposition whereby the predicate is not involved, nor pertaining to the claims made.
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Deductive
When you reach a logical conclusion from something because you accepted the premises.
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Inductive
When you have to make an assumption about something because it is not logically evident.
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Empirical
This is when something is testable or has been experienced.
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Agape
Self-sacrificing, unconditional, eternal love
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Religious Experience
An a posteriori, deductive, synthetic experience that someone has pertaining to, or experiencing the Divine.
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Pragmatism
The idea, or theory, is practical in its nature.
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Personalism
Focuses on people, rather than legalistic rules and principles.
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Relativism
It is based situationally, not perspectively.
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Positivism
Relies on the essence of agape love, and therefore allows freedom and gives people hope and denies the First Sin idea.
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Predicate
Something that is either affirmed or denied within the propositions of an argument "e.g. all unmarried men are bachelors" compared to "all bachelors are happy."
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Legalistic
Where there are rules, or laws, set in motion and they are absolute, there is NO chance to avoid following them totally.
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Antinomianist
A word used to describe the absence of all rules and laws. This provides freedom to people to make their own choices and decisions.
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Divine Command Ethics (DCE)
Ethics that are dictated, and commanded as ethical or moral, as by God or a god of some description. In Judaism, Christianity and Islam, they are given by God, and their holy scriptures.
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An argument based on logic and reasoning.

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A Priori

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When something is evident or true within the argument and is necessarily true.

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Card 4

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A none contradictory statement or proposition whereby the predicate is not involved, nor pertaining to the claims made.

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Card 5

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When you reach a logical conclusion from something because you accepted the premises.

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