“Epistemology According to Michael Polanyi, Cornelius Van Til, and John Calvin” by Charles R. Biggs

Metaphysics asks the question: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” The question that follows leads a person to epistemology: “How do we know there is something rather than nothing; and how do we know that something?” Something is the definition which we make of “what is,” it is the predication of a thing. When we begin to seek out in our universe from our finite starting point, with what kind of presuppositions will we begin in order to get answers and to make sense of it all?

 

Michael Polanyi challenged the methods of science, particularly with regards to the epistemology used in his time. As Francis Schaeffer has said, he completely destroyed the epistemology of Bertrand Russell and Logical Positivism. …