Tabula Rosa A popular Enlightenment-era conception of the human mind was that it was a tabula rosa, a blank slate devoid of content until an idea is impressed upon it by the child’s environment. It is often linked to the philosopher John Locke. It is not universally accepted, however, and many philosophers believe there is […]
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What is Faith?
Here are two diverging ideas of what faith is. No Evidence One is the notion that faith is belief in something without any evidence to support it. This is the stance taken by most atheist materialists: that faith is merely childish acceptance of something as being true without demanding that it actually be true, or that […]
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Let’s look at the objection many agnostics make to belief in God: “If I don’t know, I don’t know. Nor do you. One believes because he wants to believe, that’s all.” Even if this were a completely viable position to take, it wouldn’t support a stance of perpetual agnosticism, as we shall see. Williams James was an […]
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