Thoughts and Ways of Thinking

"Why do we think differently from one another? Why do religious people adhere to their faith even against reason, whilst atheist thinkers label it “nonsense”? Why do some judges turn more to moral values and others less? Why do we attach different meanings to the same words? These questions can be t...

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description "Why do we think differently from one another? Why do religious people adhere to their faith even against reason, whilst atheist thinkers label it “nonsense”? Why do some judges turn more to moral values and others less? Why do we attach different meanings to the same words? These questions can be tackled on psychological or sociological levels, but we can also analyze the subjects on the epistemological level. That is the purpose of this book. Thoughts and Ways of Thinking offers Source Theory as a single explanation for epistemic processes and their religious, legal and linguistic derivatives. The idea is simple: our senses, our understanding, our memory, the testimonies that we trust, and many other objects transmit data to us and so shape our beliefs. In this function they serve as our truth sources. Different beliefs stem from different sources or different hierarchies between same sources. This notion is formalized here through the new tool of Source Calculus, and, after balancing its relativistic consequences by adding pragmatic constraints, it is applied to the philosophies of religion, law and language. With this unified theory, old doubts are framed in new perspectives, and some of them even find their solution."
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-337672025-01-23T17:23:18Z Thoughts and Ways of Thinking Brown, Benjamin reason and revelation conflict relativism source theory naming sources of law truth Axiom Calculus Data Epistemology God thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTL Philosophy: logic thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs thema EDItEUR::L Law::LA Jurisprudence and general issues "Why do we think differently from one another? Why do religious people adhere to their faith even against reason, whilst atheist thinkers label it “nonsense”? Why do some judges turn more to moral values and others less? Why do we attach different meanings to the same words? These questions can be tackled on psychological or sociological levels, but we can also analyze the subjects on the epistemological level. That is the purpose of this book. Thoughts and Ways of Thinking offers Source Theory as a single explanation for epistemic processes and their religious, legal and linguistic derivatives. The idea is simple: our senses, our understanding, our memory, the testimonies that we trust, and many other objects transmit data to us and so shape our beliefs. In this function they serve as our truth sources. Different beliefs stem from different sources or different hierarchies between same sources. This notion is formalized here through the new tool of Source Calculus, and, after balancing its relativistic consequences by adding pragmatic constraints, it is applied to the philosophies of religion, law and language. With this unified theory, old doubts are framed in new perspectives, and some of them even find their solution." 2021-02-10T12:58:18Z 2017-08-01 23:55:55 2019-03-04 09:33:06 2020-04-01T13:26:39Z 2017 book 635202 OCN: 1030821177 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/31191 9781911529217;9781911529224;9781911529231 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/33767 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31191/1/635202.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31191/1/635202.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31191/1/635202.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/31191/1/635202.pdf Ubiquity Press 10.5334/bbh 10.5334/bbh c23860c2-a2ee-4bf2-9f6d-4dc8a3814448 9781911529217;9781911529224;9781911529231 186 open access
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relativism
source theory
naming
sources of law
truth
Axiom
Calculus
Data
Epistemology
God
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Thoughts and Ways of Thinking
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relativism
source theory
naming
sources of law
truth
Axiom
Calculus
Data
Epistemology
God
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTK Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge
thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QD Philosophy::QDT Topics in philosophy::QDTL Philosophy: logic
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relativism
source theory
naming
sources of law
truth
Axiom
Calculus
Data
Epistemology
God
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