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| Leucippus & Democritus |
world is made up of atoms and change is determined by the necessary motions of them |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:36:35 GMT |
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| Pythagoras |
--reality is made out of numbers
--numbers are non physical
--ascetic=self denying or self-punishing |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:32:27 GMT |
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| nihilism |
view that either nothing exists or the view that nothing deserves to exist, or the wish for destruction |
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| relativism |
the view that there are no absolute values; all values relative to time, place, and culture. In epistemology, this is the view that there are no absolute truths; all truths are relative to time, place, and culture. |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:32:27 GMT |
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| atheism |
claim that there are no gods or god |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:32:27 GMT |
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| reductionism |
showing that an object that appears to be one kind of thing can really be reduced to more basic kind of thing |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:18:14 GMT |
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| naturalism |
explaining natural phenomena by means of natural phenomena |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:18:13 GMT |
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| determinism |
the belief that there exists no freedom only necessity |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:18:13 GMT |
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| materialism |
the substance is matter, physical |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:18:13 GMT |
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| pluralism |
belief that reality is made up of more than one kind of substance, "stuff" |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:12:50 GMT |
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| monism |
believing that there is only one substance in reality; only on kind of "stuff" |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:12:50 GMT |
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| logos |
explains worldly things by use of reason |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:12:50 GMT |
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| mythos |
explaining worldly things by tracing them to exceptional, sometimes sacred events that caused the world to be as it is now. |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:12:50 GMT |
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| ethics/moral philosophy |
the study of right behavior or character/ |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:08:01 GMT |
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| metaphysics |
investigates principles of reality transcending those of any particular science |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:08:01 GMT |
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| aesthetics |
the study of values of art and beauty |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:08:01 GMT |
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| logic |
the study of the rules of argumentation; study of proper inferences |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:08:01 GMT |
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| axiology |
the stufy of values |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:43:55 GMT |
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| ontology |
the study of being; study of what is real |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:43:55 GMT |
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| epistemology |
the study of knowledge and truth |
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atziry999 Tue, 27 Jan 2009 02:43:55 GMT |
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| philosophy |
love of wisdom |
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