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Voltaire was a deist.

Descartes thought that human existence could be reduced through science to the functioning of a mere machine.

The concept of an immortal, recurring soul (reincarnation or transmigration of souls) has appeared in multiple philosophical traditions. How has this concept been used to explain human knowledge, and what is one major weakness of this metaphysical view?

The god of Zoroastrianism is Ahura Mazda.

Descartes believed that beliefs could be justified by experience alone.

The “free will defense” (i.e., that there is evil in the world to serve as a contrast so that people would see and appreciate good) is, at best, a partial solution because not all evil is of our doing.

Descartes declared that the principle attribute of the mind was extension.

Monism is the attempt to reduce all the things in the world to things of one kind.

Which of the multiple options would Aristotle categories as something of “Substance”?

Plato believed that truth must be __________.