The God of Judaism, Christianity and Islam lacks any anthropomorphic qualities, His emotions are purely God like and reflect nothing of human understanding.

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.

The thesis that every event in the universe necessarily occurs as the result of its cause is called __________.

“Hume’s fork” is Hume’s insistence that every belief be justified either as a “relation of ideas” or as a “matter of fact.”

A priori (knowledge) is knowledge “with experience” or after experience.

Friedrich Nietzsche accused Christianity of being a set of rationalizations for impotence.

Friedrich Schleiermacher insisted that religion was simply a matter of intense feelings of dependence, nothing more.

Which Aristotilian causes is described as the person or event that actually makes something happen by doing something?

_______ argued that humans invented religion to escape their intolerable social conditions. Once we see this, we should reject religion as an escape and turn instead to the correction of those conditions that made such an escape necessary.

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