1. Lucidity: Camus’ term for clarity and understanding (Lecture)
2. Noir: crime fiction featuring hard-boiled cynical characters and bleak sleazy settings (google)
3. Existentialism: a philosophical theory or approach which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. (google and lecture)
4. Self: who you are in regards not to the body but what makes you you (lecture)
5. Determinism: almost similar to cause and effect, where everything happens from the first event. (lecture)
6. Perspectivism: the theory that knowledge of a subject is inevitably partial and limited by the individual perspective from which it is viewed. (lecture and google)
7. Relativity: the belief that there’s no absolute truth, only the truths that a particular individual or culture happen to believe (lecture and google)
8. Plurality: the belief that reality consists of many different substances (Lecture and google)
9. Epistemology: The study of knowledge (Lecture)
10. Rationalism:  we gain knowledge without experience through the use of reason (Lecture and google)
11. Empiricism: philosophical belief that states your knowledge of the world is based on your experiences, particularly your sensory experiences (Lecture and google)
12. Mimesis: to copy a pure substance (Lecture)
13. Apollonian: the focus on the happy parts of life (lecture)
14. Dionysian: the acknowledgement and embrace of the darker sides to life (lecture)
15. The Demon Argument: the argument that there is a demon looming overhead and controlling your life (Lecture)
16. Falsify: to make false (Lecture)
17. The Other: Someone who is not the ideal, like a woman (DB)
18. The Other: someone who makes you realize that you are an individual person apart from others (Sartre)
19. Shame: A feeling caused by how another interprets you as a person after actions they have seen you done, in which you believe that what they are thinking is true (usually a negative trait) (Sartre)

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