Just curious about your epistemology (way of knowing), i thought it would be interesting to see the epistemological views of members here (theists and atheists).
Firstly i'll start with a brief explanation of my Epistemology.
Reliablism.
This is an epistemological position that unlike other epistemologies held by Atheists does not depend on naturalism being true, and unlike the epistemologies held by the likes of Dawkings and Harris, does not engage in reductionism or scientism (Re: Harris and 'Science informing morality' or Dawkings 'God is in the realm of science').
Reliablism is the idea that our ways of knowing (or more practically the standards we set for ourselves in our acceptance of propositions as true) should be formed by methodologies that are reliable (such as the scientific method and logical argument) and should exclude approaches that tend to lead to contradictory conclusions (introspection, emotion etc).
Reliablism is also a take on True Justified Belief.
Reliablism states that someone can obtain 'knowledge' if The proposition is true, is believed and is obtained by reliable process. This specifically excludes guessing or 'pure intuition' (the distinction is important as most things believed to be intuition are actually informed by data) as qualified knowledge, for instance: where P and S believes P but no reliable process was used to arrive at belief in P. This specifically excludes the chances of being accidentally right about P.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reliabilism/
Firstly i'll start with a brief explanation of my Epistemology.
Reliablism.
This is an epistemological position that unlike other epistemologies held by Atheists does not depend on naturalism being true, and unlike the epistemologies held by the likes of Dawkings and Harris, does not engage in reductionism or scientism (Re: Harris and 'Science informing morality' or Dawkings 'God is in the realm of science').
Reliablism is the idea that our ways of knowing (or more practically the standards we set for ourselves in our acceptance of propositions as true) should be formed by methodologies that are reliable (such as the scientific method and logical argument) and should exclude approaches that tend to lead to contradictory conclusions (introspection, emotion etc).
Reliablism is also a take on True Justified Belief.
Reliablism states that someone can obtain 'knowledge' if The proposition is true, is believed and is obtained by reliable process. This specifically excludes guessing or 'pure intuition' (the distinction is important as most things believed to be intuition are actually informed by data) as qualified knowledge, for instance: where P and S believes P but no reliable process was used to arrive at belief in P. This specifically excludes the chances of being accidentally right about P.
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reliabilism/
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