RELIGIONAS AN AREAOF KNOWLEDGE2

GOD MATTERS XS IB CLE 2013-2014 Full Name Patrick Lim 4G Section LC#

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Part One: YOUREpistemologicalWorldViews Summarize here your findings (even if tentative!) about your philosophies of knowledge: Absolutist, or #s Rationalist? DomainsRelativist, Item YOURPhiloof K Brief Reason+ Remarks NaturalScience 1, 5, 14 Absolutist
This is because I believe that there can only be one correct/accepted explanation when it comes to these matters It will have a lot of possible answers, but there will only be one answer that will become correct, in majority. It will always depend on ones opinion, though we tend to have a biased opinion in the end. This will be depend on the situation. Religion will always be an open debate, and I cannot say that this opinion is better than the other.

Social Science

4, 8, 12

Relativist

Art

3, 7, 10

Relativist

Morality Religion

6, 9, 11 2, 13, 15

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. Domains Sense Reason Language Emotion Others? If you think there are other ways of knowing/judging, use the last column and specify. Perception Natural Science 3 1 2 4

Social Science 4 Art Morality Religion 1 3 4

1 4 1 1

3 3 4 2

2 2 2 3

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

40

60

100%

Evidence is better because this will convince the people of why a certain belief/theory is true. In social science, it somewhat deals with the persons opinion, and authorities will be the experts when it comes to studying of why their opinion is such. For me, art is always an open topic and will depend on each person. No one person can say that this is better than the other.
For me, this is a toss-up and even though a person of high authority says whats right, it will depend on the person itself.

Social Science

70

30

100%

Art

50

50

100%

Morality

50

50

100%

Religion

80

20

100%

Usually, what the authorities of the Church say is true, since they are the ones who study these extensively.

Whydo you thinkthereis no OPINIONin Part Three? I think there is no opinion in part three because the survey is trying to get our opinion when we are not biased. If there is an opinion part, then perhaps most of the percentages will land under the opinion portion, therefore making the survey not that effective. With the opinion choice not available, then we become objective, and deliver more concise results.

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