CIPHERS OF TRANSCENDENCE: COGNITIVE AESTHETICS IN SCIENCE.
Modern epistemology is reluctant to presume the objectivity of a mental event. Because a valid theory of knowledge is subjected to objective standards of rationality, the invocation of a transcendent ground of existence termed ‘god’ is deemed extra-systematic. This reference lacks warrant because it...
| Published in: | Heythrop Journal Vol. 49; no. 4; pp. 603 - 620 |
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Jul2008
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