[responsivevoice_button] This article isn’t for the faint of heart. This will be a long conversation with regards to the issue of epistemic norms, ethical norms, and where we find them as categorical or hypothetical. For the distinction between categorical and … Continue reading The Moral Nature of Epistemic Norms
[responsivevoice_button] An ancient problem that permeates the history of philosophy is the one and many. It deals with the nature of all things of just the thing that would be reality. So, I am going to share this quote about … Continue reading The One and Many
The following is from Chris Matthew and his conversation with some atheist. He’s an up-and-coming presuppositionalist: There are a couple of remarks that merit response, @FondestAlloy. 1.) Do you deny the possibility of knowing whether something is objectively true? 2.) … Continue reading The Unity of Knowledge
Necessitarian takes on two atheists on the topic of empiricism. It is good for younger presuppositionalists to read how to perform presuppositionalism at a profound level. Necessitarian: I cannot agree that my system struggles with any such question. For Aristotle, … Continue reading Perceptions Boundary
Another objection to Van Til’s presuppositionalism is that it is covertly pragmatic. Far from making any headway toward demonstrating that Christianity is objectively true, Van Til has really only proven that Christianity represents a most, or even the most useful and desirable belief system. Yet, again, the objector has lapsed back into the very sort of position that Van Til has proven untenable. If reality were the sort of place where subjective and objective truth could be so disconnected, the objector would have no ground for supposing that his reasoning process advances by objectively valid inferences.413 Hence, the objection that … Continue reading Bosserman on Stroud’s Objection
Presuppositionalists tend to state that they hold to something called “Revelational Epistemology”. But what does that mean? What does that entail? In order to answer those questions, we will have to enter into modern philosophical debates to answer them. Epistemology is the study of knowledge. It deals with what constitutes(or what is the content) of our knowledge, the justification of our knowledge, and the structure of our knowledge. The Content of Knowledge: This is to ask for what makes up our knowledge? Do we know things because of our senses? Because of our reason? How do we acquire knowledge? The … Continue reading Parsing Revelational Epistemology
Recently, I was on the atheist brain-cell killing zone of “Friends of The Bible & Beer Consortium”. The group attracts all the village atheist to leave their intelligence behind and set up shop in a Facebook group. The exchange I had was between Randall Theo(a troll) and Ty Wilson. Neither of them has a view of their own and can’t answer basic questions of their own worldview. But in the middle of their profound ignorance they asked a question that pops up from time to time: TheSire said: Randall, how do you account for laws of logic, objective moral norms, … Continue reading Presuppositionalism and Historical-Grammatical Hermeneutics
The Rationalist program has long been abandoned, but it is good to cover old ground. The reason is it is important to understand how the history of human thoughts has led us to the relativism of today. While you may … Continue reading The Continental Rationalist
We often think that we come up with new and distinct ideas. I never have that issue. That isn’t because my humility, but rather that is because I never have a thought. I wonder how some thought we have now may have existed with saints prior to us. It may have been Justin Martyr that noticed the self-attesting authority of the word of God: The word of truth is free, and carries its own authority, disdaining to fall under any skillful argument, or to endure the logical scrutiny of its hearers. But it would be believed for its own nobility, and for … Continue reading The Self-Attesting Christ
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