Key Terms

Question 1

Psyche

Answer 1

Mental or psychological structure of a person

Question 2

Id

Answer 2

Part of the psyche that is residing in the unconscious and relates to the basic needs and desires of

Question 3

Ego

Answer 3

Resides largely in the conscious and is reality orientated. It relates to basic needs and desires

Question 4

Superego

Answer 4

Part of the unconscious mind; the moral part

Question 5

Collective neurosis

Answer 5

A neurotic illness that afflicts all people

Question 6

Instinctual impulses

Answer 6

An instinct that is in the unconscious but active in the psyche

Question 7

Obsessional neurosis

Answer 7

Uncontrollable obsessions that can create certain daily rituals

Question 8

Totemism

Answer 8

A system of belief in which human beings are said to have some kinship or mystical relationship with a spirit-being, such as an animal or planet

Question 9

Oedipus complex

Answer 9

Theory that young boys are sexually attracted to their mothers but resent their fathers. The feelings are repressed as they fear the father. Oedipus refers to a character in a Greek legend that unwittingly killed his father and married his own mother

Question 10

Personal unconscious

Answer 10

Memories that have been forgotten or repressed

Question 11

Collective unconscious

Answer 11

Element of unconscious that are shared with all other people

Question 12

Archetypes

Answer 12

‘Original Pattern’. The archetypes give rise to mages in the conscious mind and influence human behaviour

Question 13

Individuation

Answer 13

The process of attaining wholeness and balance

Question 14

Revelation

Answer 14

A supernatural disclosure to human beings

Question 15

Cognitive language

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Language that is empirically verifiable and makes assertions about objective morality

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Non-cognitive language

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Language that is not empirically verifiable or falsifiable but instead expresses an atttitide towards something

Question 17

Logical positivists

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Philosophers who supported the claim that language could only be meaningful if it could be verified by empirical means

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Metaphysical

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That which is beyond, or not found in, the physical world

Question 19

Eschatological verification

Answer 19

Certain religious statements may be verifiable in principle and should therefore be regarded as meaningful

Question 20

Disclosure

Answer 20

Where something is made known where previously it was hidden or unknown

Question 21

Qualifiers

Answer 21

A term used by Ramsey where a world or phrase is used to give a deeper meaning to the model that the qualifier proceeds

Question 22

Univocally

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Where something has on universal and ambiguous meaning

Question 23

Equivocally

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Where there is more than one meaning, usually in relation to a word or phrase

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Attribute

Answer 24

Characteristics or features that something possesses

Question 25

Natural theology

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Philosophical reasoning based on information that can be rationally gained about the physical world and which leads to revelation about the divine

Question 26

Language games

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Analogy which stated that league was meaningful to those that used it within their own form of life

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Realist

Answer 27

Adopts the correspondence theory of truth

Question 28

Anti-realist

Answer 28

Adopts the coherence theory of truth