Soft Rationalism

Abraham advocates for “Soft Rationalism,” the view that broad systematic worldviews like religious belief should be considered as rounded wholes and that there is no “formal calculus” for weighing the diversity of evidence. Indeed, there is an “irreducible element of personal judgment” over all the evidence, including personal experiences of varying sorts, which can only be gathered “in an ad hoc fashion,” leaving a person to “work through the issues as honestly and rigorously as possible.”

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