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The structure supporting cherished beliefs…

by DAVID BROWN | CLEARNFO.com | February 20, 2010

All our holy water is based on epistemic systems which underlie various nouns and are supported by basic assumptions which are beyond critical reason.

Where…

Holy Water = Cherished beliefs

Epistemic System = Epistemology is the study of truth, or answers the question… at what point does something become truth, your criteria for truth, bull-shit detector or your truth system, ergo epistemic system. Everyone has a system to analyze data and this is called your epistemic system

Various nouns = variables like in algebra. The point here is that these are all “objects” either real, virtual, imagined, etc. These are words or containers for meaning.

Belief SystemBasic Assumptions = All logical arguments as in an epistemic system must first start with an assumption, for example If A = B and B = C, then A = C. So the assumption upon which this entire logic depends is that A= B, this is also called the ‘a priori’. If your first assumption is wrong (A does not equal B) then all your logical conclusions are suspect and cannot be trusted.

We can never prove the original or first a priori, it is just a given upon which all subsequent reason depends.