God Made All

A university is a school whose quest is to find unity in diversity - namely how all the diverse fields of knowledge fit together to provide a unified picture of life.

A pluraversity is an institution that deems every viewpoint just as valid as the other except the viewpoint that just one religion or worldview could be true.

Origin, Identity, Meaning, Morality, Destiny

Then I can have moral fluidity when it comes to the virtues, rules, & values I wish to subscribe to (Ex: Progressive Christians want hope without conviction)., Is not evil also then just a preference?

God is All

No God At All

Zen Buddhism, Hinduism, New Age

An individual who is unsure about the question of God.

That which describes an actual state of affairs.

absolute, narrow, & exclusive.

Yes

Truth is discovered, not invented, Truth is transcultural, Truth is unchanging even though our beliefs about truth change, Beliefs cannot change a fact no matter how sincere, Truth is not affected by the attitude of the one professing it, All Truths are Absolute Truths Including Ones that appear Relative

False

A tactic used to turn a self-defeating statement on itself. (Example: Roadrunner leaving Wile E. Coyote suspended mid-air with no ground to stand on)

Is that a relative truth?

Are you absolutely sure?

Is that statement true just for you, or is it true for everyone?

Can that truth be known?

Ornery Agnostic (He can’t know anything for sure), Ordinary Agnostic (He doesn’t know anything for sure)

Jews, Christians, and Muslims believe in different versions of a theistic God. They each believe that evil is real, but Christians believe that people are saved by grace while all others teach it is by good works. And each religion has different definitions for the word “good”., Most Hindus & New Agers believe in an impersonal force they call God and that evil is just an illusion.

To put up with something you believe to be false (after all you don’t tolerate things you agree with).

Isn’t that a judgement?

Though the blind men cannot see in representation of world religions, the man telling the parable has an objective perspective on what is right and wrong.

Philosophical Example: Searching logic, evidence, and science

Sociological, Psychological, Religious, & Philosophical

Parents, Friends, Society, & Culture

Comfort, Peace of Mind, Meaning, Purpose, Hope, & Identity

Scripture, Pastor/Priest, Guru, Rabbi, Imam, Church

Consistency, Coherence, Completeness (best explanation of all the evidence)

Either-Or, Both-And

A self-evident first principle of thought that says contradictory claims cannot both be true at the same time in the same sense (The opposite of true is false).

They must be true by definition or mathematical equation., They must be verified empirically by one or more of the five senses., There are no sense experiences for concepts beyond the physical so metaphysical claims should not be believed.

Are you skeptical about skepticism?

A.J. Ayer

A claim that a proposition can be meaningful only if it’s true by definition or if it’s empirically veriable.

Logical Positivism

“Since the principle of empirical verifiability itself is neither true by definition nor empirically verifiable, it cannot be meaningful.”

Immanuel Kant

If one can’t know anything about reality due to the mind that forms it then you can’t know that agnosticism is true.

Nothing-But

His statement implies “more than” knowledge by claiming that the data which his brain receives is “nothing-but” phenomena. But in order to know this, he’d have to see more than just the phenomena.

Phenomena (Mind’s Perception) and Noumena (Real World)

If you can’t see how the Phenomena (Mind’s Perception) and Noumena (Real World) differ, it is better to assume that they are the same in that the Mind is accurately portraying the world., Your mind doesn’t form the world, the world forms your mind., Our senses are a window to the world.

“First, if Kant claims that he can’t know anything about the real world (the thing in itself) then how does he know the real world is there? And second, his view is self-defeating because he claims that you can’t know anything about the real world while asserting that he knows that the real world is unknowable!”

Yes

First Principles

Law of Noncontradiction & Law of the Excluded Middle

Something is or is not

They are intuitively known and are the gateway for your mind to learn anything about reality.

True

False

True

Induction

Deduction

Premises usually require induction & discovering the conclusion usually requires deduction.

True

Disconnecting the two will create uncertainty. Reason cannot explain things unless it observes and induces a starting premise for its deductive conclusion which can only come by experience. And experience cannot disconnect reason lest it fails to learn or understand anything about reality.

True

False

The word induction exists in this sentence.

False

By His Effects

Even though people may claim that truth in morality doesn’t matter, they don’t really believe that when someone treats them immorally., Success in life is often dependent on the moral choices a person makes., All laws legislate morality.

False

Yes they are

Albert Einstein

Intellectual, Emotional, Volitional