So I ended up finding philosophy interesting, but it isn’t always easy for me to keep all the terms straight or to wrap my mind around all the concepts explored in philosophy. And the study of how we know what we know can be quite fascinating. Epistemology may be a long, fancy word, but it’s not nearly the mouthful that “the study of how we know what we know” would be. But much to my surprise, I actually enjoyed philosophy and realized that those fancy terms could be a useful shorthand. In fact, I had a sneaking suspicion that all these fancy words were just ways to dress up a lot of ideas that either amounted to nothing more than common sense or that weren’t worth thinking about. It just seemed like so much gobbledygook to me-epistemology, ontology, noumenology, blahblahdelogy. When I started working on my master’s in theology, the class I dreaded more than any other was philosophy.
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