Sentences with phrase «argumentation employed»

The dualistic mode of analysis and the negative argumentation employed to accomplish this dilution is, moreover, antithetical to the scientific method.

Not exact matches

Whatever orthodox believers may think of Kenny's journey over these decades from classical theism to something vaguer, he is at least an equal - opportunity basher: For his aversion to absolutism can equally well be employed against the New Atheists, who affect an apodictic absolutism in their argumentation that makes them as impregnable to counterevidence as anything found in a creationist textbook.

This is where Hartshorne could, and in some implicit ways does, drive a wedge in Brightman's view, because Brightman is willing as a point of method to collapse metaphysical questions into epistemological questions.29 Hartshorne is not so willing, and thinks personalism must employ both inductive (empirical) and transcendental argumentation to support its own claims.

Indeed, such a form of argumentation ultimately proves to be as much required for a fully critical theology as are the others we have discussed, intended as it is to clarify what they necessarily presuppose concerning the applicability or capacity for existential illustration of the concepts they employ.

Because each type of argumentation plays a distinct and necessary role in a fully reflective or critical theological analysis of the relation of experience and value, only that «methodological alternative in process theology» which employs them for their respective purposes and to the highest degree can properly be regarded as adequate.

Because first - order theological argumentation does and must presuppose the second - order assertions that presuppositional analysis uncovers, such presuppositional assertions invariably shape the hermeneutical analysis employed in any first - order presentation of experiential data.

Earlier planned litigation strategies (such as campaigns for school desegregation and for the abolition of capital punishment) took place primarily within the court system, employing legal argumentation as the mechanism for social change.