Suppose you were locked in a mansion with 10 other individuals. You come to find that one of the 10 other individuals have murdered the owner of the mansion. You proceed to look for every piece of evidence available. You decided the evidential route was better than “The Butler did it”. You quickly find the evidence is limited and doesn’t demarcate one specific person as the criminal over another. Tensions are surely going to rise throughout the night as nobody can trust the other. The position you are in is a difficult one. But would you say that you are guilty of not knowing the killer? Do you think that the individual in the circumstances bears culpability for not knowing the killer? Suppose that he had to go through infinite many persons instead of 10. Would the person be culpable?

Suppose you worked in a research facility based on Mars and a strain of an alien virus entered the facility. It infects one of the staff working on the research base and begins to mimic them. It mimics the crew members in such a way that no physical fact could demarcate it from it being the person it mimics. Such that it shares the victims DNA and physical appearance. Everyone formulates a theory on who it is and each theory makes sense of the data in their own various ways. Now, would the crew that is human be culpable for not being able to demarcate the correct position? Suppose there was now an infinite amount of theories. Would the humans be guilty of not being able to demarcate the true theory?

Often, opponents of the presuppositional method argue that it has insurmountable objections. The one I’m speaking to is the incompleteness objection. The idea that infinite possible worlds can explain why reality is intelligible. If reality can be explained by infinite many worldviews, then how can a human be guilty for his unbelief if he isn’t able to demarcate the true worldview? Asking him to sort out an infinite set of possible worlds is like asking a paraplegic to stand and go for a 4k run. How can any worldview that posits an infinite set of other worldviews be consistent with moral responsibility for unbelief?

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Hawkeye

When a Cactus misses the Point

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