Leibniz argued that the senses, although necessary for all our actual knowledge, are not sufficient to give us the whole of it, since the senses never give anything except examples, that is to say particular or individual truths.
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_______ is St. Thomas Aquinas’s first argument for the exist…
_______ is St. Thomas Aquinas’s first argument for the existence of God.
Kant influenced German Romantic philosophers who replaced hi…
Kant influenced German Romantic philosophers who replaced his notion of “constitution” with the notion of “creation”.
__________ argued very strongly for the design argument.
__________ argued very strongly for the design argument.
_______ discusses the importance of doubt in spiritual and r…
_______ discusses the importance of doubt in spiritual and religious practice.
Hume refuses to accept the existence of __________.
Hume refuses to accept the existence of __________.
What type of reasoning did Locke advocate as the best method…
What type of reasoning did Locke advocate as the best method for making generalizations from experience?
A priori (knowledge) is knowledge “with experience” or after…
A priori (knowledge) is knowledge “with experience” or after experience.
Taken at face value, the first three versions of the cosmolo…
Taken at face value, the first three versions of the cosmological argument are similar to _________ argument for the “prime mover.”
For Plato what aspects of the “intelligible realm” is contro…
For Plato what aspects of the “intelligible realm” is controlled by the Form of the Good?