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Religion – Metaphor Hacker

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Framing Knowledge Philosophy of Science Religion

Who-knows-what-how stories: The scientific and religious knowledge paradox

I never meant to listen to this LSE debate on modern atheism because I’m bored of all the endless moralistic twaddle on both sides but it came on on my MP3 player and before I knew it, I was interested enough not to skip it. Not that it provided any Earth-shattering new insights but on […]

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Extended writing Knowledge Metaphor Religion

Religion, if it exists, is negotiation of underdetermined metaphoric cognition [UPDATED]

Preamble I am an old atheist and a new agnostic. I don’t believe in God in the old-fashioned Russellian way – if I don’t believe in Krishna, Zeus, water sprites or the little teapot orbiting the Sun, I don’t believe in God and the associated supernatual phenomena (monotheism my foot!). However, I am agnostic about […]