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| Is being able to take a subject and ask why it is that way |
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| Going back and questioning the account of why things are |
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| Study of what lies beyond the material world. |
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______ (c.160-220) said no to philosophy and
claimed that it often lay at the root of heresy.
BLANK posed the infamous question, “What
has Jerusalem have to do with Athens?” |
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BLANK (354-430),
Bishop of Hippo,
believed in the
necessity of proper
starting points. Famous phrase: 'crede
ut intelligas' (“believe
so that you may
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The noetic effects of sin
• If God has indeed revealed his Word to us, and
if human reason is darkened by the Fall, we
must begin with revelation.
• Revelation cannot be trumped by reason.
• Historic Advocates: Protestant Reformers
(Luther, Calvin, and their heirs) and Puritans
• Modern Advocates (Abraham Kuyper, Carl
F. H. Henry, Richard Mouw, et al.) |
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• 13th century monk
and and admirer of
Aristotle.
• Developed a method
for philosophy based
upon the analogia
entis, or “great chain
of being”
• “Start small, go big.” |
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• Begin with “reason”
or, more broadly, that
which is indubitable
(cause and effect, law
of noncontradiction,
etc.) and go as far as
you can.
• Faith (i.e. revelation)
takes you the rest of
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• Begin with “reason”
or, more broadly, that
which is indubitable
(cause and effect, law
of noncontradiction,
etc.) and go as far as
you can.
• Faith (i.e. revelation)
takes you the rest of
the way! |
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“A BLANK is a conceptual scheme by which we
consciously or unconsciously place or fit everything we
believe and by which we interpret or judge reality.”
Ronald Nash |
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| Presuppositions, religious and otherwise |
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• Fundamental assumptions
about the most important
issues of life. |
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| Religious Presuppositions |
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Every worldview has an understanding of something as
being ultimate.
• Religion is defined as the belief in something
or other as divine; divine is defined as something that
has the status of not being dependent on anything
else.
• If some aspect or entity is necessary or
“properly basic” to reality, then it functions with
a divine status.
• Ultimately, therefore, all worldviews are religious.
E.g., this is why the Pythagoreans thought 1+1=2 was a
religious statement.
• See Roy Clouser, The Myth of Religious Neutrality |
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| is a term that refers to the capacity human beings have to make sense of things, to establish and verify facts, and to change or justify practices, institutions and beliefs |
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| is a term that refers to the capacity human beings have to make sense of things, to establish and verify facts, and to change or justify practices, institutions and beliefs |
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| compelling belief or assent; forcefully convincing |
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| A logically unsound argument |
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| An Argument is fallacious if: |
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• Its premises weren’t warranted.
• Relevant information was passed over. |
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| • Argumentum ad Baculum — Appeal to force |
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Attacks the character, not
the argument |
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| outside a person’s realm of specialization |
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citing an atypical
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arousing
enthusiasm to win an argument |
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assumes what one is
trying to prove |
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argument turns on a crucial
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| sidetracking the argument |
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| Statement made without relying on observation |
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A statement made on the basis of observation,
“only on the basis of experience.” Synonym
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Relies solely on the definition of
terms. If you understand the terms, you can
justify the statement. |
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Truth or falsity does not depend
solely of the definitions of its terms. It is
justified by information learned in the
statement which can be tested empirically.
The information contained in the statement
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| Logically Necessary Statements |
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statements must be true,
or stated differently, they cannot be false. It
will be true in every possible world. |
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statements are
statements that are true in some possible
worlds but not in others. |
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| (also known as logical empiricism, scientific philosophy, and ) is a philosophy that combines empiricism—the idea that observational evidence is indispensable for knowledge—with a version of rationalism incorporating mathematical and logico-linguistic constructs and deductions of epistemology. |
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| Objects existing in space |
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| Deliberate Shaping, history, culture, technology etc... |
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| Meaning carried by symbolic |
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| Self giving love, generosity |
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| Vision, aspiration, commitment, creed |
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