TESTING A WORLDVIEW
Preliminary axioms: Truth test=
• CORRESPONDENCE (does it correspond to reality?)
• COHERENCE (is it logically consistent/ does it make sense?)
--CORRESPONDENCE and COHERENCE are incontrovertible methods of establishing truth in a court of law.
*This view of truth is supported by four laws of logic:
• The Law of Identity: An object is identical to itself.
• The Law of Non-contradiction: Two contradictory statements cannot be true in the same sense at the same time.
• The Law of the Excluded Middle: Just because two things have one thing in common does not mean they have everything in common.
• The Law of Rational Inference: Inferences can be made from what is known to what is unknown.
*So how do we unpack a worldview and see how well it corresponds with reality and coheres with our experience?
1. LOGICAL CONSISTENCY (Does it make sense?)
2. EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY (Is there any evidence to support what is being claimed?)
3. EXPERIENTIAL RELEVANCE (Does it correspond with our experience of the world?)
• CORRESPONDENCE (does it correspond to reality?)
• COHERENCE (is it logically consistent/ does it make sense?)
--CORRESPONDENCE and COHERENCE are incontrovertible methods of establishing truth in a court of law.
*This view of truth is supported by four laws of logic:
• The Law of Identity: An object is identical to itself.
• The Law of Non-contradiction: Two contradictory statements cannot be true in the same sense at the same time.
• The Law of the Excluded Middle: Just because two things have one thing in common does not mean they have everything in common.
• The Law of Rational Inference: Inferences can be made from what is known to what is unknown.
*So how do we unpack a worldview and see how well it corresponds with reality and coheres with our experience?
1. LOGICAL CONSISTENCY (Does it make sense?)
2. EMPIRICAL ADEQUACY (Is there any evidence to support what is being claimed?)
3. EXPERIENTIAL RELEVANCE (Does it correspond with our experience of the world?)