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There are no justified beliefs, i.e., you can never be sure that something is true. Beliefs can only be justified in relation to other beliefs. Therefore, all objective knowledge comes about by persuasion that explanations for observations are not wrong. Since no belief can be justified or sure, all objective knowledge is (and should be)Continue reading “Epistemology”

What does it mean when someone says they are, “spiritual but not religious”? What elements of human experience are they talking about when they use that word? And why is that the situation of so many modern young people, that they eschew the religious institutions of their parents and grandparents, but still desire to keepContinue reading “Spirituality”

Everything that we understand we come to know through experience. There are two types of experience that can lead to understanding–direct experience, and belief in something that is conveyed to us symbolically. Direct, pre-linguistic experience allows us to know things in a way that we often find difficult to convey or describe because language isContinue reading “Language: Its Uses and Misuses”