(October 15, 2014 at 1:57 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Do you consider any of the humanities knowledge? Not all forms of knowledge can be isolated under controlled conditions. Only the narrow-minded would make experimental verification a requirement of knowledge. People can reason from general experience to gain knowledge about the nature of reality and the absolute principles that govern it. If particular experiences appear to violate the deduced absolutes then further inquiry is justified. This applies to everything, holy writ included.
What a confused mess:
Yes, humanities are forms of knowledge. No, isolation under controlled conditions is not required to gain experimental knowledge. Knowledge without experimental verification leads to most of the misconceptions about reality today. Reasoning from general experience is a form of experimental knowledge - where those experiences are subject to verification. Without it being so, the knowledge is not sound. And if it applies to the holy writ, please provide details of experiential experimental tests to verify the knowledge.
(October 15, 2014 at 1:57 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: But not a good one. Are you even capable of making value judgments? Black and white thinking is a sign of borderline personallity disorder. You might want to get that checked.
Its as good and valid as any of the other methods you might have.