PHIL 3015 Chapter : Farrer
Evasion- escaping or shrinking from something
Credulity-willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially
without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility.
-Credulity is the crime in universities- you should not believe what
evidence does not assert.
-Christianity appears to be credulity.
-A Christian believes facts “which cannot be exempted from the
scrutiny of history”
-Philosphy does not oblige its practicioners to believe in God. We
are obliged to reckon with the “Christian movement”, but not
Christianity itself.
-yet nothing has been proved against it.
-we have to reconcile ourselves to the truth of our nature, which is
submission to God.
-are there not more truths than one?
-to be true is to conform to fact
-there is no point in dwelling on trivial questions
-there no more to truth that conforming of thought to facts
-If we say there are various sorts of truths, we really mean there
are facts of different sorts
Truth
-the facts to which true thinking corresponds
-an act of though which is, as it happens, true
-the truthfulness of an act of thought
-there are sorts of truths, (truths of sciences, history, ect)
yet the truth of these thinkings does not differ, but their nature as
thinkngs
