Philosophy: Paradox and DiscoveryPHILOSOPHY: PARADOX AND DISCOVERY, 4/e presents philosophy as an immediate, vital, and challenging process of discovery. The text has been specifically designed to help students evaluate their beliefs on basic issues and to see philosophy as a process of discovering and examining the paradoxes inherent in those issues. The forty-one readings in PHILOSOPHY: PARADOX AND DISCOVERY are drawn from classic and contemporary sources. |
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... evidence for the conclusion based on them ? Does the fact , for example , that an individual experiences a profound sense of direct contact with an alleged transcendent ground of all reality , constitute competent evidence for the claim ...
... evidence for the conclusion based on them ? Does the fact , for example , that an individual experiences a profound sense of direct contact with an alleged transcendent ground of all reality , constitute competent evidence for the claim ...
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... evidence which will increase or decrease the probability of such a theory . EVIDENCE AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD Scientific method pursues the road of systematic doubt . It does not doubt all things , for this is clearly impossible . But it ...
... evidence which will increase or decrease the probability of such a theory . EVIDENCE AND SCIENTIFIC METHOD Scientific method pursues the road of systematic doubt . It does not doubt all things , for this is clearly impossible . But it ...
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... evidence , which must be weighed carefully and tested by the well - known canons of necessary and probable inference . It follows that the method of science is more stable , and more important to men of science , than any particular ...
... evidence , which must be weighed carefully and tested by the well - known canons of necessary and probable inference . It follows that the method of science is more stable , and more important to men of science , than any particular ...
Contents
The Paradoxes of Religion | 1 |
The Problem of Evil | 53 |
THE SOULBUILDING ARGUMENT | 65 |
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