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Reason and the heart: prolegomenonto to a critique of passional..

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Prof. Wainwright has written an unusual book supporting the philosophical position known as evidentialism. Outside of the "hard sciences" and math, the basis for having an explanation that has force is not based primarily on inductive or deductive reasoning. Other elements inform one's explanations and understandings. He notes "As Newman and James have shown, temperament, passion, intuition, and sentiment affect the beliefs we take as basic and our attitude toward evidence." Newman has written extensively about illative reasoning, and James about the relevance of "the will to believe" or, so to speak, pragmatic reasoning.
His arguments are compelling when one considers the incessant drumbeat of the atheists and secular humanists that religious beliefs are unreasonable.

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Z. HANDIMAN

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210 WAI r

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London : Cornell University Press., 1995

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x,160p.; 24 cm.

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English

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0-8014-3139-5

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NATURAL THEOLOGY

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