Sentences with phrase «epistemic reasons»

Also, we need to note that Pascal never comes up with an epistemic reason, a rational reason, to believe in God.

It is NOT put forward even as a good epistemic reason to believe.

Not exact matches

The project of natural theology, seeking what can be known of God by the light of reason alone, was abandoned and left for dead by many scholars in mid-century, assumed to be a victim of either positivism or epistemic relativism.

In other words, there is reason for mysteries, just not the kind of reasons we can get to under our own epistemic steam.

The only reason for accepting that perception in the mode of causal efficacy is accurate or reliable is that the perception occurs (where the perception is considered strictly as an experience without any cognitive or epistemic significance).

There is good reason to think that the fatal flaw of the indicated argumentation for epistemic relativism lies in its failure to give due heed to the dialectic of process and product — and in particular the distinction between instances of the production of information and the items of information that are produced.

This ideal of epistemic science originated in the classical experience of reason associated with Socrates and his disciples, especially those who gathered about Plato and Aristotle.

It is put forward as a possible prudential reason to believe, however prudential reasons are not sufficient for epistemic justification, and Pascal admits this multiple times in the Pensees.

According to the epistemological argument, on the ancestral chain model one can not have full - blown epistemic acts wherein a chain of reasoning in thought through and a conclusion drawn.

Epistemic criteria are disjoined, and the Bible, tradition, the Magisterium, reason, and experience become competing rather than mutually supportive authorities.

Thus, according to Zimmermann, the postmodernist critique of autonomous reason, including the notion of deconstruction itself, was foreshadowed in an important strand of early Reformation theology, one that puts an emphasis on epistemic humility as a corrective to the temptation to idolatry.

As for actual violence vs epistemic violence, I think the US led illegal (and ill reasoned) wars have killed more people in my lifetime, at least politically aware lifetime, than anyone else's actions have, and this is usually brushed aside as just one of those things.

«If we are to engage students with thinking / reasoning and working scientifically, we need to align classroom practices more authentically with the knowledge building, or epistemic practices of science,» Tytler tells Research Developments ahead of the event.

This may not vindicate current theories, but it provides reason to think that science is making real epistemic progress.

I've heard that there are some crow species that are in fact not completely black, but the epistemic implications of the reasoning are still entertaining and perhaps informative.