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Agnosticism: Kant, W. David Beck
Agnosticism: Kant, W. David Beck
SOR Faculty Publications and Presentations
This chapter identifies the results of Kant's philosophical system on the contemporary discussion concerning an inerrant revelation. Knowledge, for Kant, is possible only as the forms and categories of the mind organize the raw data of the senses. Beyond this phenomenal world, the mind can only postulate what must or ought to be. It cannot know what is. The first postulate of this practical reasoning is freedom. The individual is autonomous, knows the good, and is capable of willing and doing as he ought.
Within such an epistemological framework, revelation becomes unnecessary, useless, and unverifiable. Inerrancy is not only false …
Foundationalism And The Proper Stopping Place For Socratic Questioning, Richard Legum
Foundationalism And The Proper Stopping Place For Socratic Questioning, Richard Legum
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Conclusion. Bibliography., Richard Legum
Conclusion. Bibliography., Richard Legum
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Probability, Terminating Judgments, Memory, And Justified Belief, Richard Legum
Probability, Terminating Judgments, Memory, And Justified Belief, Richard Legum
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Chisholm's Rules Of Evidence, Richard Legum
Chisholm's Rules Of Evidence, Richard Legum
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The Directly Evident, Richard Legum
The Given, Richard Legum
Foundationalism, Richard Legum
Probability And Foundationalism, Richard Legum
Probability And Foundationalism, Richard Legum
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Peirce And Hegel On Absolute Meaning, Gary Shapiro
Peirce And Hegel On Absolute Meaning, Gary Shapiro
Philosophy Faculty Publications
When Peirce's philosophy is approached in terms of his theory of meaning, it is usual to think of the connections between the pragmatic maxim and the more reductive accounts of classical empiricism or modern operationalism. The point of this paper is to suggest that this angle of approach is narrow and makes several aspects of Peirce's philosophy difficult to understand; on the positive side, I want to show how both the glories and miseries of Peirce's philosophical endeavor are thrown into high relief by noting his affinities and breaks with Hegel's dialectical theory of meaning. Peirce himself often pointed to …
[Foundationalism And Perceptual Knowledge], Richard Legum
[Foundationalism And Perceptual Knowledge], Richard Legum
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