Beliefs: When Knowledge Is Not the Answer

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Often we come to know by acquiring personal skills. No amount of scientific reasoning can teach you how to ride a bike. But once you have acquired the skill, you know. We know our tradition by experiencing and living it. Then there is ethical knowing. We may not be able to define justice but we know when we see it; and we recognise its absence. Ethical knowing has a religious dimension.

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Beliefs: When Knowledge Is Not the Answer

Alternative medicine is junk. That is the view of a group of eminent doctors and scientists who have sent a letter to every NHS trust urging the health service to reject funding for "unproven" and "implausible treatments". But ...

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