On the Metaphysical Foundations of Two Views of Truth: Experiential Reality and Believing-Sentiment Reality in Christianity

Abstract

As to the study of Metaphysics, people often pay attention to the dialectics and conflicts between two schools-empiricism and rationalism. Because they not only improve the development of the history of Western thought, but also become acceptable owing to their familiarity to the people. But the philosophical foundation of empiricism and rationalism lies in this mind function—"reason”—while the other mind function—"sentiment”—has often been ignored. The philosophical foundation put by sentiment plays an important role in all of the development of metaphysics; we must pay more attention to it. Sentiment, especially the reality effected by believing-sentiment, supplies another philosophical foundation differing from the experiential reality for the development of natural science and innovative creation. Pointing out this will be beneficial to improve the development of natural science.