TY - JOUR T1 - Aplikácia vybraných vedeckých metodológií na otázky náboženského poznania JF - Filozofia Y1 - 2017 A1 - Karaba, Miroslav KW - Imre Lakatos KW - Religious beliefs KW - Scientific methodologies KW - Thomas Kuhn AB - The paper deals with the nature of religious knowledge, in particular the legitimacy of cognitive statements in religion. I suggest that neither science is as objective, nor religion as subjective as logical positivists use to argue. The starting point of my argument is Kuhn’s paradigmatic approach and Lakatos’s methodology of scientific research programs. These concepts indicate that scientific models are products of a creative analogical imagination; data are theory-laden; comprehensive theories are resistant to falsification; and strict criteria for paradigm choice can hardly (if at all) be found. Actually, all of these subjective features are more prominent in religion. Nevertheless, on my view, the difference between science and religion is a question of degree rather than absolute contrast. VL - 72 UR - http://www.klemens.sav.sk/fiusav/doc/filozofia/2017/3/192-203.pdf M3 - State U2 - Articles U3 - 192203 ER -