For philosophic thinking, one of the purposes of rational self-examination is to develop arguments that correct or support beliefs in ways that could be persuasive even to people with different backgrounds.
a. true
b. false
a. true
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It's common to regard science as the most authoritative form of knowledge and as the royal road to truth about the world. But when you begin to think more carefully about science, the picture gets more complicated. Write an essay in which you explore what it means to call science a form of knowledge. Your essay should address kinds of truth; the relations between observation, hypotheses, and
theory; the theory-dependent nature of some facts; the challenge of understanding how scientific theories can be true in any sense; the strengths and success of science; and the creationism-science debate. What will be an ideal response?
When impressions are organized in the mind by means of the a priori intuitions and the Categories of Understanding, the world that emerges is:
1. the noumenal world. 2. the physical world. 3. the phenomenal world. 4. the spiritual world.
What is the argument from religious experience for the existence of God? Is it sound? Why or why not?
What will be an ideal response?
Christianity began as an offshoot/sect of Judaism
Indicate whether the statement is true or false