Presupposition

faith and science have come up against each other throughout the history because of the commonly accepted notion when science is a direct setting off contrast to theological concepts. Actually, this idea may be acknowledged, but in the context of presuppositions of a…

The Case Against Memory Memories are an indicator of what individuals believe to be the truth. While some individuals may believe that an event occurred in early childhood, there are often parents that will not recall the event at all. It’s necessary, then, to establish if there are pieces of physical evidence that can be traced back to the memory in question. Without other evidence, memories become a case of “he said, she said,” which is not an ideal way of conducting investigations, let alone…

Sociology of Deviance The Division of the Mind, Soul & Body We do not live in a world of our own creation. We live in a world that is made up. In the words of James Baldwin an African American Historian, “People invent categories in order to feel safe.” (Dialogue 88-9) In other words people create associations to loosely say ‘I am not that’ or ‘I am this’, to feel a part of something and have a classification for social order. This notion applies to the body as well. People cannot simply…

challenge the traditional “Western feminist” discourse on women in the third world. Mohanty’s purpose is not to question the knowledge and value of Western feminist writings on women in the third world, but to uncover ethnocentric universalism (presuppositions and implicit principles). She claims that women in the third world are portrayed as sharing a homogeneous oppression. Instead, she asks Western feminists to take into account the complex interaction between social, economic, class,…

In his concise but very satisfying essay, “On the immorality of the Soul” Hume presents many sharp and brief arguments against considerations of afterlife. He offers them within three successive sections; moral, physical and metaphysical. He argues that there is no reason at all to think that the soul is immoral, except that the Bible says it is, so it must be true. But in reality, it is the gospel and the gospel alone that has brought life and immorality to light (Hume, 590). Firstly, there…

saving acts. Oladimeji (2010) also explored the pragmatics of Umar Yardua’s inaugural speech (2007) using Lawal’s pragmatic theory in the analysis of his research data. Essential elements captured in his findings includes: intention, inference, presupposition, implicature and mutual contextual beliefs (MCBs). This paper explored the speech acts used by Muhammadu Buhari and the meta-functions as well as a pronominal reference analysis of Muhammadu Buhari’s inaugural…

Socrates was a Greek philosopher; who life was recorded by his students such as Plato. He is one of the founders of philosophy and he is known for his “Socratic method”. Socrates had a curious mind and he always wondered things. He wanted to find how people should act. We can see this behavior in The Republic when he tries to find a definition for justice. Socrates practiced philosophy, therefore he was accused of “corrupting the young” and not believing in the “gods”, and he was sentenced to…

determined by the setting where it was promulgated. Previously most study had been carried on in the surroundings of the church or a church-controlled school. Now the scene shifted to the secularized German universities, where distinct philosophical presuppositions guided the historical investigations. The rationalists’ attitude toward miracles was taken for granted: the universe is controlled by fixed laws which allow for no suspension, alteration, or change. The Bible is to be interpreted as…

Uppsala acknowledged secular world as locus and context of mission, “to a humanity that cries passionately and articulately for a fully human life.” This shift of focus from individual conversion towards world foreshadowed the crisis in mission as found in Donald McGavran’s question “Will Uppsala Betray the Two Billion?” According to McGavran the document “Renewal in Mission” did not give an authentic proposal for personal proclamation of the gospel, necessity of faith, the unevangelized…

The Uncertainty of Experience. When Kant justifies the possibility of a priori in sense perception, he uses the notion of time and space to argue that the sense perception already contains a priori and the time and space are underlying the experience. Then, Kant believes the certainty of experience based on the time and space. “Time and space are, therefore, two sources of knowledge, from which, a priori, various synthetical cognitions can be drawn”, and “The sphere of phenomena is the only…