Sentences with phrase «epistemological claims»

Most self - described atheists are Agnostic Atheists who do not believe in Gods, but also do not make epistemological claims about God's existence (or lack thereof).

Here, and in other egalitarian literature, principle is given priority over application; admonition is given preference over description.34 What is dangerous in such a procedure, though it admittedly works in many cases, is the implied epistemological claim that objective, impersonal statements are of a somehow higher order of trustworthiness than the more personal and relational aspects of Scripture.

Not exact matches

Everett Rogers, one of the foremost scholars of the communication field, has claimed that interactive, two - way technologies represent an epistemological turning point in communication research (Rogers 1986).

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.

On this epistemological basis, Brightman opposes Hartshorne's claim that selves literally participate in one another's being.

As such, induction is a problem about what we can justifiably claim to know; this is why I term it an essentially epistemological problem.

«11 By means of a process or an event (it is difficult to define it precisely), one who by all odds could otherwise claim epistemological privilege becomes aware of a complete reversal of the notion of «privilege» finds that an extraordinary kind of truthfulness (which is not «objectivity») attaches to the «partial» perspective glimpsed from the vantage of the struggle of the poor, the discriminated - against, the forgotten - about.

The ultimate epistemological reason why this teaching can not claim an absolute certitude derives from the essence of moral truth.

Recently Western modern theologies heavily dependent upon modern philosophical (epistemological or other) concepts for theological interpretations; and this trend, too, neglected the religio - cultural and intellectual life of Asian peoples for theology, while claiming universality of Western theologies.

Barth protested against all claims to methodological neutrality, epistemological foundationalism and philosophical preunderstanding.

He was the first truly deep thinker to give a firm epistemological foundation to the claim that Christians had come to know the true God in the person of Christ.

In the post-modern West, well before believers can proclaim revealed truth, they're forced to combat the epistemological consequences of the dictatorship of relativism — to explain the possibility that truth claims can have real, objective, and unalterable meaning.

I don't believe in a god, but I admit I can not prove one does not exist, I am not able to make claims of epistemological truths.

While Barth freely makes use of Kantian epistemological concepts, he is never dependent on them for his own theological epistemology, which is rooted not in secular axioms regarding human reason but in theological claims regarding the nature of God and divine action.

Mr. Leithart claims that sola Scriptura is an epistemological doctrine answering the question, From what source do I learn how I can commune with God?

Placher's answer to my question about the relative truth or falsity of religious claims touches upon my comment that current forms of epistemological relativism provide a justification for affirming the truth of beliefs without worrying about whether they are true for more than those who affirm them.

Epistemological modesty means that you believe certain things, but you're modest about these claims.

This raises the question of what epistemological status it can claim.

I'm guessing Latitude, who made the claim, is in the 2 - 5 epistemological category; what I got from reading the level 1 - 2 epistemological reports is general agreement on (2.3 + / -0.5) x10 ^ -4 parts of unity CO2 for the half - million years or more before 1750 AD.

Liebig's law of the minimum (often not capitalized for various epistemological reasons), the cut off in various plants for gain to photosynthesis (maximum of 1300 ppm, but lower for many plants), the point of diminishing returns (about 400 ppm, but lower for many plants) of photosynthesis gains from CO2, all are ignored in this claim.

Finally, respect for human rights obligations, especially the right of indigenous communities «to practice and revitalise their cultural traditions and customs» [74] and to equality before the law, including in the enjoyment of the right to equal treatment before the tribunals and all other organs administering justice [75], calls for the development of principles which address the unique evidentiary issues involved in native title litigation, including the reality of claims based substantially upon orally - transmitted traditions, the lack of written records of indigenous laws and customs, the «unsceptical» receipt of uncorroborated historical evidence incapable of being tested under cross-examination, and the epistemological, ideological and cultural limitations of historical assessments of traditional laws and customs by non-indigenous commentators.