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Category Archives: Ethics & Metaethics
Answering Gettier
[ work in progress ] [ completed 1/15/11 ] Plato’s justified-true-belief definition of knowledge, maintained by critical realists, besides requiring that a belief be justified by evidence and true by correspondence, says 1) whether or not a belief is true … Continue reading
Norris, Gettier, Euthyphro, Hume and Plato: Is knowledge justified true belief?
[ Section on Gettier revised 1/7/11 ][ Mention of Euthyphro dilemma as applied to epistemology revised 2/23/11 ] When deciding whether knowledge is justified, true belief (Plato), a question arises: Is the truth of a belief 1) external to the … Continue reading
Replacing Agnosticism with Apisticism
This article argues we replace the word “agnosticism” (lack of knowing) with the word “apisticism” (lack of believing) on every belief scale. The current debate between Myers and Coyne on the falsifiability of atheism is complicated by a misunderstanding of faith/belief as … Continue reading
Is-ought fallacy and knowledge as justified, true belief
The is-ought fallacy (Hume) is a real fallacy, and is why knowledge is justified, true belief (Plato). In order to be knowledge, a belief must both be justified by the evidence, and true by correspondence. If we consider justified a belief … Continue reading
Posted in Is-Ought Fallacy, Justified True Belief
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The New, New Theism
Edited the fourth option on my scale 2/17/11. THE NEW, NEW THEISM (a bit of satire)followed by three versions of Dawkins’ belief scale, the final version being mine The theism of the New, New Theism is not a belief, but a … Continue reading
Posted in Apisticism, Faith, Golden Rule, Richard Dawkins
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At Coffee with the Euthyphro Dilemma
Maryann, Dawkins, and Harris are at coffee…Maryann pops off with… Maryann: It is a true fact that love…treating the other as self…is the highest value. Dawkins (pre-Moral Landscape): Nature neither knows nor cares. Nature just is. Maryann: Agreed. But the … Continue reading
The reason for hope: One woman’s bravely told story of forgiveness
“Always be ready to give a reason for the hope that is in you.” 1 Peter 3:15 In today’s The Reason for Hope we hear from a woman whose story is evidence that God never leaves our side, even when … Continue reading
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