Presuppositionalism and Worldview
… continued from Triggermanblog Getting the Definitions Right Before going anywhere in the post itself, we need to establish what I consider to be solid, consistent, working definitions of the terms presupposition and worldview so that we have a solid foundation on which to work. The folks over at Master Class have provided a good definition for the term worldview , defining it as , “ someone’s set of answers to all the big questions of life ”, adding that this can be constructed either at the individual level–in a sort of smorgasbord approach–or it can be corporately structured, what we one might call a “religion”. They add that a worldview has a number of elements: anthropology, cosmology, epistemology, metaphysics, and ethics , among others. It has been suggested that a worldview can be treated like either a pair of glasses or sunshades: it either brings the world into focus or it gives the world a certain hue. Another example is that it functions like a pair of contact lenses: u...