RELIGIONAS AN AREAOF KNOWLEDGE2

GOD MATTERS XS IB CLE 2013-2014 Full Name Percival Lao Section H4C LC#
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Note: This is your digital worksheet. You will find the instructions for todays module here. Perform the requested tasks using this Pages file. In other words, make it your own. Thank you!

Part One: YOUREpistemologicalWorldViews Summarize here your findings (even if tentative!) about your philosophies of knowledge: Absolutist, Relativist, or Rationalist? Domains NaturalScience Social Science Art Morality Religion Item#s 1, 5, 14 4, 8, 12 3, 7, 10 6, 9, 11 2, 13, 15 YOURPhiloof K Brief Reason+ Remarks

Evaluativist
Evaluativist

Relativist
Relativist Relativist

Part Two: Waysof Knowing How important are the different Ways of Knowing in the different domains? Rank them from 1 to 5 according to importance, with 1 as MOST IMPORTANT. If you think there are other ways of knowing/judging, use the last column and specify. Domains Natural Science Social Science Art Morality Religion Sense Perception
1 1 2 3 4

Reason

Language

Emotion

Others?

3
4 5

5 3 1

4
5 4 5 5

2
3

1 3

4 2

2 1

Part Three: AUTHORITYand/orEVIDENCE/ARGUMENT When you justify claims, how much do you actually rely on External Authority and Direct Evidence for every domain? Assign a percentage to each one per domain (Just make an estimate, so NO decimal points--e.g., 25.2321%!). Make sure both total 100%. Domains % AUTHORITY % EVIDENCE/ A
RGUMENT

Brief Reason+ Remarks

NaturalScience Social Science Art Morality Religion

20%

80% 50% 40%

100% 100% 100%

50% 60% 30% 70%

70% 100%

30%

100%

Whydo you thinkthereis no OPINIONin Part Three? I think the reason why opinion is not present in part three is that people have different opinions and there are many factors that affect our decisions in choosing whether to follow evidence, authority or our own opinion. Our opinions create bias and subjectivity. Following authority seems to be more accurate because they also follow evidence. Obviously, evidence is also accurate because there is physical proof that it's true.

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