Home›Core Tenets›Knowledge and Reason›All Knowledge and ReasonBrowse ByAll Knowledge and ReasonCore tenets that state how religious truth can be known and what role reason, mysticism, direct experience or plain faith plays in knowing it. This includes tenets on the limits of human reason before the divine, the value of philosophical argument for or against a doctrine, the role of mystical or ecstatic experience as a source of knowledge, and doctrines that a truth is known only by revelation and cannot be reasoned to. A tenet about the content of what is known, such as the nature of the divine itself, is grouped under that content instead; this group holds tenets about the manner and possibility of knowing, not the knowledge's own subject matter.All Knowledge and ReasonComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)All Knowledge and ReasonFilter Results22 entriesStatus Within the TraditionAllBinding, without a formal definition (15)Genuinely disputed within the tradition (3)Rejected, or not held, within this tradition (4)Standard teaching, not formally defined (4)Origin Period Start YearAll1624 (1)1869 (1)Affirmation OfAllAnekantavada (1)The Two Truths (1)Category of BeliefAllCore Tenets (6)Cosmological Beliefs (1)Moral Precepts (2)TraditionAllAmerican Humanist Association (2)Chabad-Lubavitch (1)Digambara (1)Ethical Culture (1)Gelug (5)Humanists International (2)Ismailism (1)Jonang (2)Kagyu (1)Karma Kagyu (1)Madhyamaka (3)Mahayana (1)New Atheism (1)Nichiren (1)Nyingma (1)Quranism (1)Rinzai (1)Sakya (1)Shia (Twelver) (2)Shingon (1)Soto (1)Sunni (1)Svetambara (1)Tendai (2)Tiantai (2)Tibetan Buddhism (1)Vajrayana (1)Zaidiyyah (1)Zen (1)SubjectAllKnowledge and reason (22)ObligationAllObligatory (13)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 22All phenomena lack intrinsic nature (svabhava)Cosmological BeliefsAl-Masalih al-Mursala: Unstated Public Benefit Is a Ground for RulingCore TenetsAnalogical Reasoning Is Not a Source of LawCore TenetsAnekantavada (many-sidedness of truth)Cosmological BeliefsAql: Reason Stands Beside Quran, Sunna and Consensus as a Source of LawCore TenetsBelief should be proportioned to the evidenceMoral PreceptsContemplative Prayer Worked Through the Faculties of Chochmah, Binah and DaatCore TenetsFormal debate as a means of realizationCore TenetsFree inquiry must not be limited by dogma or authorityMoral PreceptsGood and Evil Are Knowable by ReasonCore TenetsGood and Evil Are Known Only Through RevelationCore TenetsIstihsan: A Jurist May Set Aside a Strict Analogy for a Better RulingCore TenetsJuristic Preference Is Not a Valid Source of LawCore TenetsMiracles and revealed prophecy are not credibleCore TenetsOther-emptiness (shentong): ultimate reality is empty of what is other than itselfCosmological BeliefsQiyas: Analogical Reasoning Is a Source of LawCore TenetsReligious truth is known by reason, not revelationCore TenetsSelf-emptiness (rangtong): things are empty of their own inherent existenceCosmological BeliefsThe middle way avoids both eternalism and annihilationismCore TenetsThe threefold truth: emptiness, provisional existence and the middleCore TenetsThe two truths, conventional and ultimateCore TenetsWhether any god exists is unknown and may be unknowableCore TenetsComments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.