Description: Encountering Reality argues for a new appreciation of T. F. Torrance on epistemology and reality. According to Torrance's realism, all authentic knowledge involves the nature of the object impressing its inherent rationality on the mind. Knowledge involves thinking in accordance with the nature of the object. The inescapability of ultimate beliefs in all human knowledge requires a shift in the traditional notion of objectivity. We find that shift in the account provided by T. F. Torrance, whose epistemological position implies an alternative notion of truth. Drawing on distinctly Christian sources, Torrance emphasizes the distinction between truth and truthfulness thereby reorienting the discussion from a focus on statements to a focus on being. This shift challenges the dichotomy between correspondence and Coherence theories of truth and provides one way of transcending the scientific realism/anti-realism debate and gives rise to a practical epistemological tool, disclosure models, which function as self-correcting, self-marginalizing lenses through which we encounter reality, yielding knowledge in accordance to the nature of the thing known.
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EAN: 9781506412917
UPC: 9781506412917
ISBN: 9781506412917
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Item Length: 23.1 cm
Item Weight: 0.46 kg
Book Title: Encountering Reality: T.F. Torrance on Truth and Human Understanding
Item Height: 235mm
Item Width: 190mm
Author: Travis M. Stevick
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Topic: Theology, Popular Philosophy, Christianity
Publisher: 1517 Media
Publication Year: 2016
Number of Pages: 280 Pages
