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Three propositions on rationality
It’s been a while since the second post, but the more I’ve considered these things, the more I realise just how basic they are to everything we think and believe. The term for what we’re talking about is epistemology. Epistemology deals with the very nature and basis for knowledge. Since everything we think we know is built on some epistemological basis, we would be wise to at least understand what our own epistemological basis is.
A look at presuppositionalism
It's been a while since my last heavy post. This topic has been going through my head a lot over the last several weeks. Farid commented that “the big danger with taking faith over everything is that you'll believe really crazy things and you won't see the truth because blind faith is.... blinding!” For a classic (and somewhat disturbing) example, click here where you'll see a Fundamental, Independent Baptist scholar trying to prove that the
An introduction to evidentialism
Recently I've been studying something called evidentialism. I have to admit that I'm learning this from the ground up, but I thought I'd put what I'm learning here in order to help me sort out my thoughts. Also, some of you may be able to give me feedback that would be helpful in the development of my thinking on this. I'll start by defining evidentialism. "Evidentialism is a theory of justified belief according to which
Epistemology and other irrelevant stuff
We're tempted at times to think the size of a word is directly proportionate to its real-life irrelevance. The longer the word—we think—the less relevant to my life. And I guess at times that's true. But there are some words that are extremely relevant. For instance, Orthomyxoviridae doesn't seem very relevant unless you were up all night with the symptoms of the virus also known as the flu. Epistemology is like that. We may not