2 days ago by Reeves

Empiricism teaches us that we can know things by seeing and observing by our senses. British philosopher and an empiricist John Locke once wrote that we are born Tabula Rasa which means blank slate in Latin refers to the epistemological thesis that individuals are born without built-in mental conten ...

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2 days ago by Rick

Last night as my daughter was getting into her bed, I noticed her slip something under her pillow. When I asked her what she was doing, she pulled her hand out from under the pillow and showed me a tooth. Mildly surprised, I asked "did you lose a tooth today?". "No," she replied. "I found it." "Wher ...

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4 days ago by Vic

Proper science is always descriptive. It seeks to be predictive. It never is prescriptive. I believe that confusing these categories is what is behind the muddled debate regarding the role of science and faith in Scripture. Before looking at the three categories, I think it is important to identify ...

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5 days ago by Andreas Mannal

original illustrator, Henry Holiday It is amazing how we assume again and again the tabula rasa of ‘ignorance’, so we can discover something or create something out of our own, personal self? What a powerful entertainment industry and consumerism we have by playing hide and seek with ourselves! Peop ...

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13 days ago by Ali Lochhead

“Epistemology is the philosophy of knowledge: How do we know what is true or false, what is real or not? Can we know anything for certain, or is it ultimately hopeless? Again, the Greeks outlined two opposing approaches to the problem of knowledge. One is called empiricism, which says that all knowl ...

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15 days ago by nonaeroterraqueous

Your dog died. I’m sorry. It was minding its own business, sniffing a hydrant, distinguishing between the various flavors of urine, when along came a car and smacked into your poor doggy’s rear end. Granted, it had stopped sniffing to chase a squirrel past a car, but we can hardly blame the dog. The ...

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15 days ago by punafish

Positive Reinforcement: “The giving of encouragement to a particular behavior with the intended result that it is more likely to be repeated.” I recently wrote a piece on American Culture and Positive Reinforcement. I received some thought-provoking responses. Rather than adding a long comment to th ...

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16 days ago by logicmania

By Nicola Novakowsky Everyone remembers being indoctrinated at least once in school with the scientific method. The scientific method is actually problematic for all the events I’ve observed that could not be replicated by the scientific establishment. Honestly, the scientific method is too unrealis ...

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17 days ago by kingneb

Earlier tonight, i finished an encounter from an atheist, challenging me on one of my youtube vids. He began his attack on Christianity by pointing [...]

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18 days ago by Travis

The Enlightenment was a big deal. Prior to it, the source of authority was custom, tradition, religion - things were the way they were because that’s how they were supposed to be. A person (almost always a man) was invested with authority because the existing authorities said he was, and that’s all ...

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