STUART MCALLISTER

Foundational Assumptions of Postmodernism (Stanley Grant): (1) Explanation of reality are useful, but not objectively true. (2) We do not have the ability to step outside our own constructs of reality.
Truth is (Stuart McAlister): (1) non-contradictory, (2) absolute, (3) discovered, (4) descriptive, (5) inescapable, and (6) unchanging.
Worldview must provide (Stuart McAlister): (1) a theory of the nature of the world, or reality, (2) a diagnosis of the nature of human beings, (3) a diagnosis show more of the problem, (4) the answer or solution.
Tests for Truth: (1) logically consistent, (2) factual, (3) viable.
Quote (Stuart McAlister): "The world says, 'It's truth for you' -- but it's not describing reality."
Quote (C S Lewis): "I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it but because by it I see everything else."
Quote (Aristotle): "To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true; so that he who says of anything that it is , or that it is not, will say either what is true or what is false."
Quote (Stuart McAlister): "Your worldview is not what you see; it is what you see with. It's how you perceive and interpret reality." show less