a priori, an argument that relies on logic or reasoning, a posteriori, an argument based solely on experience or personal observation, predicate, adds something to the description of a subject or object., necessary being, a being that must exist, it cannot not exist, analytic statement, a statement that contains the truth needed to verify it within the statement itself., synthetic statement, a statement that needs external evidence to verify whether it is true or false., logical fallacies, errors in reasoning that are based on poor or faulty logic, inductive, evidence is collected from observations and experiences to suggest a hypothesis which is then reinforced by further observations and evidence, contingent, can exist or not exist; relies on something outside of itself to exist, deism, belief in a creator that started the world but then has no further involvement in it, fallacy of composition, what is observed about the parts cannot be assumed to be the same for the whole, theism, belief in a God that is active and involved with the world

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