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- 2. Its a theory of learning based on the idea that all behaviors are acquired through conditioning, and conditioning occurs through interaction with the environment. Behaviorists believe that our actions are shaped by environmental stimuli.
- 3. Branch of philosophy whose topics in antiquity and the Middle Ages were the first causes of things and the nature of being.
- 7. Scientific discipline that studies mental states and processes and behavior in humans and other animals.
- 10. Its the quality of being able to be trusted or believed because of working or behaving well.
- 11. The way of life propagated by Confucius in the 6th–5th century BCE and followed by the Chinese people for more than two millennia.
- 13. Its the act of saying or proving that a person, statement, opinion, etc. is wrong or false.
- 15. Field of study that brings together the natural sciences, particularly astronomy and physics, in a joint effort to understand the physical universe as a unified whole.
- 17. The study of correct reasoning, especially as it involves the drawing of inferences.
- 19. The quality of being based on truth or reason, or of being able to be accepted.
- 21. Its a scientific philosophy based on the requirement that hypotheses must be falsifiable in order to be scientific. If a claim is not able to be refuted it is not a scientific claim.
- 23. Mathematical and experimental technique employed in the sciences. More specifically, it is the technique used in the construction and testing of a scientific hypothesis.
- 24. A general term for all theories of conduct in which the criterion is pleasure of one kind or another.
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- 1. It is also called moral philosophy, the discipline concerned with what is morally good and bad and morally right and wrong. The term is also applied to any system or theory of moral values or principles.
- 4. The belief that the universe and the various forms of life were created by God out of nothing (ex nihilo).
- 5. In Aristotelian ethics, the condition of human flourishing or of living well.
- 6. Its a method in which a hypothetical model based on observations is proposed and is then tested by the deduction of consequences from the model.
- 8. the philosophical study of the nature, origin, and limits of human knowledge.
- 9. Circle A group of philosophers, scientists, and mathematicians formed in the 1920s that met regularly in Vienna to investigate scientific language and scientific methodology. The philosophical movement associated with the Circle has been called variously logical positivism, logical empiricism, scientific empiricism, neopositivism, and the unity of science movement.
- 12. Its the traditional and still commonplace philosophy of scientific method to develop scientific theories.
- 14. Its a distinctive form of evolutionary explanation for the history and diversity of life on earth. Its original formulation is provided in the first edition of On the Origin of Species in 1859.
- 16. The viewpoint which accords to things which are known or perceived an existence or nature which is independent of whether anyone is thinking about or perceiving them.
- 18. The philosophical study of being in general, or of what applies neutrally to everything that is real.
- 20. It is the rational, abstract, and methodical consideration of reality as a whole or of fundamental dimensions of human existence and experience.
- 22. Ethics Is a philosophical inquiry into the nature of the good life for a human being. Aristotle begins the work by positing that there exists some ultimate good toward which, in the final analysis, all human actions ultimately aim.