03119oam 22004574a 450 991015018020332120170922081348.01-5064-1292-0(CKB)3710000000939341(MiAaPQ)EBC4733170(OCoLC)962329801(MdBmJHUP)muse54500(EXLCZ)99371000000093934120161104e20162016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierEncountering Reality T. F. Torrance on Truth and Human Understanding /Travis M. StevickMinneapolis, Minnesota :Fortress Press,2016.©20161 online resource (237 pages)Emerging scholarsRevision of author's thesis (doctoral)--University of St. Andrews, 2015 under title: Kata physin : a critical exploration of the epistemology of T.F. Torrance as it relates to the philosophy of theological and natural science.1-5064-1291-2 Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-220) and index.Introduction -- 1. What is (authentic) knowledge? -- 2. Ultimate beliefs -- 3. Objectivity -- 4. What does it mean to speak kata physin? : The question of truth -- 5. What is the role of theory in kataphysic knowledge? -- Conclusion.Encountering Reality argues for a new appreciation of T. F. Torrance on epistemology and reality. According to Torrance's realism, all authentic knowledge involves the nature of the object impressing its inherent rationality on the mind. Consequently, knowledge involves thinking in accordance with the nature of the object. We shall explore the place and function of "ultimate beliefs" in epistemology, as well as the question as to whether such beliefs imply a retreat to either foundationalism or fideism. The inescapability of ultimate beliefs in all human knowledge requires a shift in the traditional notion of objectivity. We find that shift in the account provided by T. F. Torrance, whose epistemological position implies an alternative notion of truth. Drawing on distinctly Christian sources, Torrance emphasizes the distinction between truth and truthfulness thereby reorienting the discussion from a focus on statements to a focus on being. This shift challenges the dichotomy between correspondence and coherence theories of truth and provides one way of transcending the scientific realism/anti-realism debate and gives rise to a practical epistemological tool, disclosure models, which function as self-correcting, self-marginalizing lenses through which we encounter reality, yielding knowledge in accordance to the nature of the thing known.Emerging scholars.Knowledge, Theory ofElectronic books. Knowledge, Theory of.230.044092Stevick Travis M.1249609MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910150180203321Encountering Reality2895791UNINA