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Agnosticism: Kant, W. David Beck Jan 1981

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 Jan 1981

Foundationalism And The Proper Stopping Place For Socratic Questioning, Richard Legum

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Conclusion. Bibliography., Richard Legum Jan 1981

Conclusion. Bibliography., Richard Legum

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Probability, Terminating Judgments, Memory, And Justified Belief, Richard Legum Jan 1981

Probability, Terminating Judgments, Memory, And Justified Belief, Richard Legum

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Chisholm's Rules Of Evidence, Richard Legum Jan 1981

Chisholm's Rules Of Evidence, Richard Legum

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The Directly Evident, Richard Legum Jan 1981

The Directly Evident, Richard Legum

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The Given, Richard Legum Jan 1981

The Given, Richard Legum

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Foundationalism, Richard Legum Jan 1981

Foundationalism, Richard Legum

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Probability And Foundationalism, Richard Legum Jan 1981

Probability And Foundationalism, Richard Legum

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Peirce And Hegel On Absolute Meaning, Gary Shapiro Jan 1981

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 Jan 1981

[Foundationalism And Perceptual Knowledge], Richard Legum

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