The Retreat to Commitment

accept appendix approach argued Ayer Ayer's Barth basic statements belief Braithwaite chap Christ Christian Church claim conception conclusion Conjectures contemporary context critical rationalism critical rationalist criticizable demarcation dilemma of ultimate discussion Dogmatics empiricist Epistemology ethic example fact faith falsity fideistic Gnostic historical Jesus human ideas important Imre Lakatos induction infinite regress intellectual interpretation irrational commitment irrationalism justification and criticism justificationism justificationist justified Karl Barth Kierkegaard language limits of rationality Logic of Scientific metacontext Metaphysics moral Niebuhr nonjustificational object one's open to criticism pancritical rationalism panrationalism Paul Levinson Philosophy of Science political position possible Post Post's practice premises presuppositions principle problem Protestant liberalism Protestantism question Quine quoque rationalist identity reason Refutations rejected religion religious revision semantical paradoxes sense experience social symbol testable theologians theology theory of rationality thought Tillich tion traditional true truth tu quoque ultimate commitment uncriticizable W. V. Quine Watkins Wittgenstein Word York