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From: Bourgeois, Dr. Martin [mailto:mbour...@fgcu.edu]
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Here's one
*From:* Marc Carter [marc.car...@bakeru.edu]
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That's certainly how I learned it. Knowledge is justified, true
belief. One can
On 19 October 2010 Michael Britt wrote:
Our minister/priest (whatever they call him) this past Sunday
decided to discuss the God saved them argument during his
Sermon… Religion, he said, is a journey and we do not have
all the answers.
Chris Green responded:
Michael Britt wrote:
Religion, he
Michael Smith wrote:
From my point of view, the 'God saved them' argument'[is] simply a
statement of belief (which, by the way, cannot be shown to be incorrect).
Which is precisely why it doesn't count as a candidate for knowledge
(for anyone remotely sympathetic to Popper).
Chris
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Chris wrote
Which is precisely why it doesn't count as a candidate for knowledge
(for anyone remotely sympathetic to Popper).
I think I would agree that the statment wouldn't count as a scientific
hypothesis, but not that it couldn't count as knowledge.
To say that assumes a scientific world view
Hi
Only by using the term knowledge in a quirky or loose way would it be
possible to say one has true knowledge without some sort of rational or
empirical justification (I'm not certain that falsifiability is the only such
criterion one can use). There is a discussion of this at
Stephen Black wrote on the 33 rescued miners:
Four psychics the government had hired to help
find them said, Forget it, they're all dead.
Stephen rightly mocks the psychics, but he could have gone on to give
credit for the survival of the all the miners where it ultimately
belongs: :-)
I think most of us try to stay away from the science vs. religion thing, but I
might as well jump in...
The explanation of 'God saved them always seems to come up whenever anything
miraculous occurs after a tragedy and it has always bothered me because of
course, one could always wonder why
Great quote Allen. Thanks.
Michael
Michael Britt
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On Oct 19, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Allen Esterson wrote:
It is a good question whether the Wittgensteinian account [previously
discussed] chimes very well with the
Allen,
I was so entranced by the quote you posted that I went to the original
article you posted (http://www.phil.cam.ac.uk/~swb24/reviews/Dawkins.htm).
Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting it. I'm printing it up to save.
Beth Benoit
Granite State College
Plymouth State University
New
On 10/19/2010 8:22 AM, Michael Britt wrote:
Religion, he said, is a journey and we do not have all the answers.
That's funny. I thought science was a journey and we didn't have all the
answers. :-)
Chris Green
York U
Toronto
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On 10/19/2010 8:22 AM, Michael Britt wrote:
Religion, he said, is a journey and we do not have all the answers.
On 10/19/2010 11:06 AM Chris Green wrote: That's funny. I thought science was
a journey and we didn't have all the
answers. :-)
That's funny. I thought that life was a journey
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