Footnote
Thomas F. Torrance, "Notes on Terms and Concepts," in Belief in Science and in Christian Life: The Relevance of Michael Polanyi's Thought for Christian Faith and Life, ed. Thomas F. Torrance (Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 1980), 133-147; #1980-381
Bibliography
Torrance, Thomas F. "Notes on Terms and Concepts." In Belief in Science and in Christian Life: The Relevance of Michael Polanyi's Thought for Christian Faith and Life, 133-147. Edited by Thomas F. Torrance. Edinburgh: Handsel Press, 1980; #1980-381
Contents
In this chapter, Torrance provides a general glossary that defines the following:
- abstraction
- abstractive knowledge
- accrediting
- articulate/inarticulate
- axioms
- boundary conditions
- commitment
- comprehension
- conviviality
- cosmology
- definition
- detachment
- discovery
- dual control
- dualism
- empiricism
- epistemology
- fiduciary act
- focal/subsidiary
- formal/informal
- Gestalt
- hermeneutics
- heuristics
- indwelling
- integration
- intuition
- mechanistic world view
- mind/body 'dualism'
- objectivism
- objectivity
- ontology
- personal knowledge
- phenomenalism
- positivism
- premiss
- proximal/distal
- rationalism
- reality
- reductionism
- tacit dimension
- scientism
- semantics
- transcendence
- universal intent
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