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A Proper Epistemology?

It occurs to me that a proper Epis­te­mo­log­i­cal foun­da­tion begins by acknowl­edg­ing the pre­mod­ern notion that all human knowl­edge is a sub-set of God’s knowl­edge, while at the same time per­mit­ting the post­mod­ern notion that no one has a God’s eye view of real­ity, truth, soci­ety, etc., and that, in effect, we all have rel­a­tive per­spec­tives (there are many “I’s”). I would rather con­sider this fol­low­ing mod­ernism through to its log­i­cal con­clu­sion, rather than deter­min­ing it to be a new phe­nom­e­non under the head­ing of post­mod­ernism. The rea­son being is that I believe we can know truth to a sub­stan­tial degree. That even if not exhaus­tively (omni­sciently), we can say we hold a true, know­able belief.

In sup­port of this I would turn to Karl Popper’s asymp­totic approach, which was devel­oped to explain knowl­edge acqui­si­tion in the field of sci­ence. The fol­low­ing dia­gram was also used by D.A. Car­son … (Read more)