PROBLEM OF EVIL: Review

MYSTERY                                              PROBLEM

* "problem that encroaches on its own data"   ("Metaproblematic")                                      
                                                                 
* Personal- not interchangable                                        
* insoluble                                                                      
* requires "odd" language                                               

                                                      *A question not identity of the questioner
                                                        * impersonal-answer the same for all
                                                       * soluble
                                                        * "normal" language
"...Mystery may be insoluble, [but] it is not senseless; and while its inexpressibility makes it inaccessible to communicable knowledge, it can still be spoken of in a suggestive way ...Gabriel Marcel

           ["suggestive"= "odd"] j+

                     Epistemology= "what are the necessary conditions of knowledge? What are the limits of knowledge?" 

Empiricism- Philosophical tradition that "sense experience is the ultimate source for all concepts and knowledge." www.plato.standford.edu. Contrasted to Rationalism, which begins with ideas.

Positivism. Extreme empiricism “…contending that sense perceptions are the only admissible basis of human knowledge and precise thought.

b. The application of this doctrine in logic, epistemology, and ethics.” www.thefreedictionary.com.