Aquinas argued things can only be moved or ______ by something other than themselves.
Changed
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Wood has the _______ to become hot.
Potentiality
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Wood can only become hot If acted on by something that can produce the ______ of hotness.
Actuality
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Aquinas rejects __________ so the change of movers cannot go on forever. (8,7)
Infinite regress
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The first mover is ______.
God
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Where you consider what the implications are if a claim is true and you show, that if the claim is true, it leads to absurdity. (8,2,8)
Reductio ad absurdum
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Aristotle argues that the claim that there is an infinite regress of causes leads to absurdity it implies that ___________, which is clearly absurd. (9,4,4,7)
Something came from nothing
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Aristotle's style of argument claims that there is no infinite regress of causes, so there must be a _______ (5,5)
First cause
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The book Aquinas presented his Five Ways in.
Summa Theologica
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The cosmological argument relies on the ______ of infinite regress.
Rejection
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Cosmological arguments are ________ as they start from a general feature of the universe or the mere fact that there is a universe, to conclude that God exists. (1,10)
A posteriori
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Cosmological arguments are ______ as they start from experience and so only attempt to argue that it is reasonable to believe in the existence of God.
Inductive
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Aquinas argued things can only be moved or ______ by something other than themselves.
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Card 3
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Wood has the _______ to become hot.
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Card 4
Front
Wood can only become hot If acted on by something that can produce the ______ of hotness.
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Card 5
Front
Aquinas rejects __________ so the change of movers cannot go on forever. (8,7)
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