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Aug 12 13 4:48 AM
Uh NO! That is not true, with the Catholic faith. If you click on the links I posted you would have known that.
I think it can be said that the true intimate origin of the university is is the longing for knowledge, which is inherent in man. He wants to know about everything that is around him. He wants truth.
In certain belief systems, invisible causes are postulated to account for a wide range of phenomena, in such a way that their workings can only be inferred ex post facto from the observed effects. If the causal relations and conditions in the belief system are not sufficiently specified, and allow for all sorts of secondary elaborations, believers can get entangled in subtle feedback loops between theory and observation, which keep the belief system forever outside the reach of empirical refutation. Consider the belief in magic rituals, healing crystals, shamanic powers, etc. In such cases the effects are used to respectively determine the activity of whatever invisible cause is determined by the belief system: such-and-such must have happened to account for the observed effects. Any apparent failure, then, can be explained away by arguing that, apparently, the intervention was not of the right type, or not performed properly, or interfered with another invisible cause, etc. This pattern of spurious postdiction is also apparent in the way parapsychologists explain away null results and cherry pick data to "determine" where and when psi forces were active. Likewise, cult groups often draw a range of unfalsifiable concepts and events to avert disconfirmation.M. Boudry How Convenient! The Epistemic Rationale of Self-validating Belief Systems
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