RE: Scientific knowledge versus spiritual knowledge
January 4, 2016 at 6:37 pm
(This post was last modified: January 4, 2016 at 6:52 pm by Neo-Scholastic.
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(January 4, 2016 at 6:17 pm)Jörmungandr Wrote:(January 4, 2016 at 4:16 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: How do you distinguish between what you call a "spiritual" belief from the set of all possible beliefs?That's somewhat akin to asking what the difference between the natural and supernatural is. In this case, it depends on the meanings of science and spiritual.
I consider knowledge the genus and science a species within that set, one distinguished by the study of particular beings as they are found in nature. I don't think scientific knowledge encompasses the entire set.
Quote:Science: The intellectual and practical activity encompassing the systematic study of the structure and behavior of the physical and natural world through observation and experiment.
Personally, I consider all forms of transcendent truths 'spiritual', i.e. transcendent in that they are certain and apply universally to all particulars. Like metaphysics, math doesn't have to run experiments per se. I don't need to run an experiment to prove, in general, that particular beings exist or that some beings can be numbered. I also consider that type of knowledge objective because that kind of truth does not depend on the opinion or observation of any particular subject knowing them.
