Epistemology and Other Irrelevant Stuff By Jason Harris 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 […]
Epistemology, Part One: An Introduction to Evidentialism Jason Harris 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 […]
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Epistemology, Part Two: A Look at Presuppositionalism Jason Harris 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 […]
Epistemology, Part Three: Three Propositions on Rationality Jason Harris 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 […]
Epistemology, Part Four: Jason Harris In the last post in this series, I gave three basic propositions. 1) God is always perfectly rational. 2) In God’s image, humans are also rational. 3) Human rationality is limited both inherently and by the effects of the curse. If these propositions are accepted […]
