PHL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Scientific Method, General Idea, Scientific Control
5 Jan 2021
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Aristotle argued that the ultimate cause of change is an immaterial, unchanging being. God"s existence cannot be tested this way it"s arguable that natural science cannot appeal to god without ceasing to be science naturalism the view that nature is all there is. Kantian and pragmatic theories of truth have also undermined attempts to think about. Pragmatic notion of truth: the notion of god at best is just a useful idea. Does it even make sense to try to arrive, through the use of reason, at knowledge of. Kant claimed that in contemplating what the world is like, human reason cannot know anything that does not fall directly within our experience but he bases conclusion on only reality as it appears to us. Since god doesn"t appear to us at all, we cannot know whether there is a god we need not accept this conclusion. General idea in modern culture that only the scientific method leads to knowledge of.
