tradition
experience
reason
revelation
which one is your epistemological basis?
2006-10-08 13:42:50 · 12 answers · asked by truth seeker 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
epistemology = study of knowledge
everybody has a primary source, one that they draw on more than the others. do you know which one is yours?
2006-10-08 13:53:21 · update #1
I believe you need all four to gain authoritive knowledge,
2006-10-08 13:56:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Experience
2006-10-08 13:48:23 · answer #2 · answered by nellie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
my understandings come from a combination of experience, reason, and I guess you could say "revelation"
edit: for me its really hard to pick something specific like that.... a single one I mean...
Experience: well, not all "experience" is neccesarily first hand. that probably doesn't sound very sensical though.
Reason: little too relative. slightly abstract as well.
Revelation: very abstract, hard to define...
I mean... if you could look at a rubix cube. pick it up, turn it around, (not moving any peices, just looking at its current state) think, and turn it around more, and then be able to in your mind, lay out the steps it takes to change it from its current state to its completed state... not from visualizing it and 'doing it" in your head, but the answer simply unraveling and showing itself from the thinking and observation) what would that be? what if it required tinkering with it a little (to clarify the movements and such, if it wasn't already known) what if several solutions come to mind, and you have to deliberately sort out which is most appropriate, (fewest number of steps)
2006-10-08 13:46:35 · answer #3 · answered by RW 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you mean personal revelation, then yes.
Not some old worn out nonsense revelation like the bible or the Koran.
Tradition reason and experience can all let you down.
True revelation not tainted by tradition reason or experience never leads you astray.
Love and blessings Don
2006-10-08 14:02:14 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmmm 'source of Authority for Knowledge.'
I tend to trust the Professors and their chosen material for the subject. Knowledge & wisdom come for years of study and thought.
2006-10-08 13:48:23 · answer #5 · answered by Helzabet 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Objective world calls our attention to the fact that an infinite horizon of approximations, when we let our thoughts hasten in this manner, becomes modalized also in correlation with cogitationes.
2006-10-08 13:48:53 · answer #6 · answered by James P 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't think it is any single one. Knowldge of God I think is both a priori and based in revelation and experience. But we have knowledge of other things, too, which might be based in memory or experience.
2006-10-08 13:46:59 · answer #7 · answered by BABY 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A mixture of all of them. One source can't be our knowledge for everything. That would be stupid.
2006-10-08 13:45:43 · answer #8 · answered by shelbimostheduck 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
epistemo what? who? You like to use big words do you?
2006-10-08 13:47:43 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
experience and reason
2006-10-08 13:51:59 · answer #10 · answered by Chris J 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋