"So: what do you all think about that?"
at the conclusion of his thought-provoking post on the Kline article.
My words will be few; I claim no expertise at all in the world these
gentlemen work in. Just a poor lowly ex-physicist, ex-computer guy,
now retired & studying philosophy for the first time.
Jack asks how a person such as I can judge. The answer ought to
be obvious. I cannot. No way.
What then should I do? Again, obvious. I must "choose" an expert
in those matters important to me and rely on his expertise. And I
must have a strategy for deciding if it is important or not!
The words of Hawthorne come to me as I ponder this:
"So long as an unlettered soul can attain to saving grace,
there would seem to be no deadly error in holding
theological libraries to be accumulations of, for the most part,
stupendous impertinence."
-- Hawthorne (Preface to Twice-told Tales)
OTOH, of course, maybe I'm missing something!
So many books; so little time... .
Burgy