How does this tradition claim humans can know any of this?
32/40 filed · 21 shapes
How truth is claimed
The methods do not collapse. Experiment is not ceremony. Auditing is not the Qur’an. Comparison of fragments is not a laboratory, and a laboratory is not an elder.
Quoted from How Truth Is Known
Observation, experiment, measurement, prediction
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Scripture, revelation, tradition, prophetic authority
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- JudaismScripture, tradition, reason, revelation.
- ChristianityScripture, revelation, tradition, faith, experience.
- IslamQur’an, revelation, prophetic tradition.
- ZoroastrianRevelation, scripture, ethical participation.
- LDSRevelation, scripture, prophetic authority.
- EnochicRevelation, visionary literature, sacred texts.
Practice, insight, cultivation, direct realization
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Ritual, priestly knowledge, temple, divination, astronomy
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Sumerian literary tablets and the King List, in later copies
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Oral tradition, ceremony, dreams, elders, poetry
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Calculated sky, inherited interpretive systems
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Auditing and claimed personal realization
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Experience, recovered knowledge, comparison of fragmented traditions
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Cult, mystery, and philosophy — separable
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Jinas, scripture, conduct — two canons
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Gurūs and Gurū Granth Sāhib
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Rite first
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Family rite, classics, divination, temple
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Gnosis and contested books
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Hermes, vision, sympathy — later orders are later
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Ifá, oral teaching, ritual
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Country, elders, ceremony
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Ritual exchange; chronicles are later
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Other people’s writing, and archaeology
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The absence of a practitioner’s canon is recorded, not filled. Each record keeps only its own sentence.
- IrishMedieval Irish literature, written by Christians. The Táin is in copies from the 12th century and later.
- WelshMedieval Welsh literature, written by Christians. The Mabinogi is in 14th-century manuscripts.
- GaulishInscriptions, the Coligny calendar (a calendar, not a myth), and sanctuaries. Caesar’s Gallic War is an outside account of druids, not a druid book.
Tablets, then a named line of interpretation
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The interpreters are not a second set of Manifestations.
Unplaced
These records were not filed in any shape of this metric. The cell is still quoted.
- HaudenosauneeOral telling, the Great Law of Peace, condolence, and wampum as a record. No manuscript canon is filed.
- LakotaLakota: the sacred pipe, and ceremonies including inípi and haŋbléčheya, held by those who carry them. Dakota ceremony is not listed as the same rite. No book is filed as the source.
- DakotaUnclassified / Source Needed.
- DinéDiné oral narrative and ceremony, kept by those authorized to hold them. This chart does not retell a ceremony. No manuscript canon is filed.
- HopiClan teaching, oral narrative, and ceremony. No manuscript canon is filed.
- MāoriGeorge Grey’s Polynesian Mythology (1855) is a collector’s English book of Māori tradition. The stories were oral. This does not file a Māori teaching.
- HawaiianDavid Malo wrote on Hawaiʻi in the early 19th century; publication came later. No further Hawaiian claim is filed.
- TahitianA Tahitian account is not a Māori one. No Tahitian teaching is filed. Unclassified / Source Needed.