Sentences with phrase «certain knowledge of reality»
Against Kantian and other forms of skepticism, the Church teaches that reason can arrive at true natural knowledge of God, mixed with error to be sure, but certain knowledge of reality itself.
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Indeed, I would suggest that... major factors contributing to the current decline have been a certain lack of knowledge of both theology and history, as well as a certain lack of maturity in responding to newly discovered postconciliar realities.»
First, he distinguishes from classical empiricism a revisionary description of experience according to which sense perception is neither the only nor even the primary mode of experience, but is rather derived from a still more elemental awareness both of ourselves and of the world around us» (PP 78).6 On Ogden's analysis, both the classical and this first type of revisionary empiricism «assume that the sole realities present in our experience, and therefore the only objects of our certain knowledge, are ourselves and the other creatures that constitute the world» (PP 79) 7 With these «two more conventional types of empiricism» he contrasts a «comprehensive» type of revisionary empiricism distinguished from them by its consideration of the possibility (and then also by its claim) that the internal awareness it asserts together with the former revisionary type is «the awareness not merely of ourselves, and of our fellow creatures, but also of the infinite whole in which we are all included as somehow one» (PP 87, 80, 85).
We may go further: the other half of knowledge is no longer so radically relative, as certain philosophers say, if we can establish that it bears upon a reality of inverse order, a reality which we always express in mathematical laws, that is to say in relations that imply comparisons, but which lends itself to this work only because it is weighted with spatiality and consequently with geometry.
And just as matter is not solid and indestructible, so our knowledge of physical reality is not certain and infallible.