The Volitional Element In Knowledge And Belief PDF Download

Excerpt from The Volitional Element in Knowledge and Belief: And Other Essays in Philosophy and Religion This does not mean however that Christianity is to dispense with thinking to make clear, first of all, the presuppositions of the Christian sys tem. Dean Grover has done well to point out the fact that all thinking, of whatever sort, pro ceeds upon assumption. Assumption is inevi table, but we must know when we are assuming and when we are reasoning upon what has been assumed. Works like this volume of essays have large value in that they train the mind to see just what assumption is necessary and then to guard the mind against thinking that assumption is reasoning or that reasoning can take the place of or do Without assumption. The one difficulty with present day Pragmatism is that in the hands of many disciples it results in general looseness of intellectual procedure. The lead ers of the pragmatic movement have of course not intended this result. The will to believe is all-essential but the will must be an enlightened one, making its choices rationally and reasoning about them in a logical manner. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.