Reason vs. Faith
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Of all that I believe, of all the I think about the world: how much of it is actually true? What’s more: how do I know? Human beings have asked themselves these critical throughout history, and in countless areas of thought. =========================The problem of reason versus faith is, at root, a problem of how to answer these questions. The problem of faith and reason is, therefore, epistemological: a problem of how we know what we claim to know. =========================
We will briefly consider this problem, for now, in the religious domain of human thought. For it is here where that problem takes on its most vivid appearance. =========================
Philosophers have had a great deal of
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From Aristotle, who introduced to us the roots of what we now call physics, psychology, astronomy, chemistry, and more; to Francis Bacon, credited with having devised scientific method—a means by which gather facts and make reliable assertions about objects of study; to Rene Descartes, who emphasized the importance of considering first principles in research; to Karl Popper, or Thomas Kuhn, who forced us to consider the philosophical as much as the social grounds on which scientific claims of knowledge …show more content…
What’s the difference between a being that realizes itself in time, and a being that realizes itself beyond time?
=========================Perhaps the following model could suffice: imagine you have a line. But instead of it being a succession of points in space (measured for some number inches, feet, miles...whatever the unit), let’s look at that line in another way. Let’s pretend this line is a succession of moments in time. (Again the units of measurement don’t make a difference to us here, whether seconds or eons). =========================
Now, we have atleast two ways to view the passing of time represented by the line (and of course, we’re ignoring the faults in this model for explanatory purposes, for now). One way to view this passage of time would be temporally: seeing each moment as succeeding another from past to future. In spatial terms, this is like standing outside of a tunnel, watching the cars enter at one end and exit at another: you see a car enter the tunnel at moment-1, you see it go a fourth of the way through at moment-2, another fourth of the way at moment-3, all the way to when the care finally leaves.
propagation through time (BPTT) ??. If individual gradients are close to zero this multiplicative term would become
The development of the scientific method in the late 1500’s to the early 1600’s was a crucial stepping-stone in the science community. The scientific method is based upon observations, hypotheses and experimentation. The concept is rather simple, and can be applied to many areas of study. Once an observation is made, the observer can make a hypothesis as to why that phenomenon occurs and can then design an experiment to prove whether or not that hypotheses is valid. Although the scientific method has been extremely useful in the discovery of various things from usages of medications to studying animal behavior, there are still those who question the usage of this tool. These critics claim that since
These two worlds have a parallel existence and cross at a point of a time.
What does this curve tell you in terms of time and the number of cases?
I think both parts of the sentence apply in this case because he seems to be talking about time never ending which is similar to the ideas of incapable of being terminated and unending.
(Francis) Bacon stressed experimentation and observation. He wanted science to make life better for people by leading to practical technologies. (Rene) Descartes emphasized human reasoning as the best road to understanding. In his Discourse on Method, he explains how he decided to discard all traditional authorities and search for provable knowledge. (Ellis, Elser
This section provides us with two selections from the essays of William K. Clifford (1845-1879) and William James (1842-1910). Clifford's essay, The Ethics of Belief, is based on the concept of evidentialism. This concept 'holds that we should not accept any statement as true unless we have good evidence to support its truth'; (Voices of Wisdom, 346). James wrote his essay, The Will to Believe, as a response to Clifford's essay where he endorsed a philosophy called pragmatism.
In “The Garden of the Forking Paths” by Jorge Luis Borges, Stephen Albert is studying the work of Tsʹui Pên. His work is not only a book, but also a labyrinth. Many people think that the book and the labyrinth are two different things, but Stephen Albert has a different theory; it is the theory of a never-ending book. It is never-ending because Tsʹui Pên has chosen all possible futures simultaneously. Tsʹui Pên has written a book and a labyrinth, which is a never ending story of endless possible futures that demonstrates the possibility for many different futures in real life.
Given the playing around with time in Time and the Conways, the words of Dunne profoundly influenced J.B. Priestley. Using this knowledge, Priestley wrote his own book on time, entitled Man and Time (1964). In this work, Priestley explained that each person has three “observers”: Observer One experiences time (and therefore, existence) as linear; Observer Two is able to catch glimpses of the past, present, and future especially through dreams while existing in a fourth dimensional time; Observer Three is aware of the other Observers and is ultimate (Foster, 4). Each succession of Observer is aware of its predecessor Observer so that the Third Observer is all-knowing and detached. What Priestley means to suggest is that on a general conscious level, we are aware of linear time. Only when we dream, are we able to let go of the limitations of perceiving time as linear; we are able to see time as happening all at once, being ‘the whole stretch of ourselves’ as Alan described. Time is not separate moments to be categorized as past, present, or future; rather, Observer Two breaks free from this categorization in order to perceive a ‘truer version of ourselves’. Then, Observer Three is even more omniscient than Observer two and seeks to be the most real version of ourselves; however, we do not have general access to request Observer three. These ideas of Priestley greatly influenced his work, especially Time and the Conways. Alan’s speech at the end of Act two to Kay is Priestley’s
Pope John Paul II once said, “Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth – in a word, to know himself – so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves.” (Fallible Blogma) Based on this significant and powerful quote, one can infer that faith and reason are directly associated and related. It can also be implied that the combination of faith and reason allows one to seek information and knowledge about truth and God; based on various class discussions and past academic teachings, it is understood that both faith and reason are the instruments that diverse parties
If so, then justification by faith would be of no need or value but if
In this essay I attempt to answer the following two questions: What is Karl Popper’s view of science? Do I feel that Thomas Kuhn makes important points against it? The two articles that I make reference to are "Science: Conjectures and Refutations" by Karl Popper and "Logic of Discovery or Psychology of Research?" by Thomas Kuhn.
Faith and reason can be viewed as opposites. Faith is an element of belief, something an individual does not necessarily require a reason for accepting without reason. For example, an individual’s reason for believing in God may not seem too rational when they are trying to explain them. They may not even stand up to criticism. On the other hand, reason is constructed as a formula. Faith is basically something we believe in, like something we learn in church. Reason is something we learn in school, such as a math formula.
Although it is irrefutable that both Aristotle and Isaac Newton are great scientists and have made phenomenal contributions to scientific development, their scientific methods vary to a large extent. With reference to Scientific Method in Practice, Aristotle investigated the world by using inductions from observations to infer general principles and deductions from those principles to conduct further observational research (Gauch, 2003), while in Isaac Newton's Scientific Method, the author describes Newton’s method as aiming to turn theoretical questions into ones which can be explained by mathematical ideas and measurement from phenomena, and to establish that propositions inferred from phenomena are provisionally guides to further research
are not lying, or a fool. To you, no matter how much you were argued