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Wolterstorff puts forward a proposal for a distinctly Christian approach to education, one that expands the teaching-learning process within the context of the covenant faith community. He challenges Christian scholars to think seriously about how to integrate faith, reason, science, and philosophy together in how we approach educating ourselves and the next generation. Expanding on his 1976...

at each of these in turn, we shall be considering what is often called the logic of science. We may give the name ‘justification’ to the relation a theory bears to the foundation if it belongs to genuine science. Exactly what sort of relation is this? The classical view was that the relation is that of deduction. A theory belongs to genuine science just in case it is deducible from the foundation. One can see how this view is attractive. Deduction always and necessarily transmits truth from premisses
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