Here is a dialogue regarding the Stroudian objection and I will add any updates when they come about. For other occasions and dialogues about such: Bosserman on Stroud’s Objection – The Council (spirited-tech.com) Stroud and Van Til – The Council … Continue reading The Stroudian Objection and TACT
This is for anyone wanting resources on Michael martin and Transcendental argument for the Non-Existence of God (TANG). For more on a case for TAG regarding induction: A start for a philosophy of Christian science: Part 7 – The Council … Continue reading Michael Martin’s TANG
Here is the video on YouTube. There will be following this interesting conversation from others. Triablogue: James Anderson on presuppositionalism Continue reading The Transcendental Argument: Dr. James Anderson Interview
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
Steve Hays has commented on some of the articles that Alex Malpass has written on presuppositionalism: The problem with TAG Revelatory regress Continue reading Presuppositionalism and Malpass
I don’t know much about the debates in textual criticism but I know a small amount about Presuppositionalism. But I know that a group uses presuppositionalism to argue for TR priority. I think the position has issues that would possibly push it towards being Clarkianism and not Van Tilian. In TR priority thought is that God preserves his word by later and possibly throughout time giving us a document with no mistakes. This is to because it ties in with the doctrine of preservation. Now, TR priority folks don’t like that Textual Criticism done by a few folks are an … Continue reading Presuppositionalism and TR Priority
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 … Continue reading Murder on Apologetics Row
The Transcendental Argument for God’s Existence Michael R. Butler See also our blog. If, therefore, we observe the dogmatist coming forward with ten proofs, we can be quite sure that he really has none. For had he one that yielded . . . apodeictic proof, what need would he have of the others? –Immanuel Kant I. Introduction A. Van Til and the Copernican Revolution of Apologetics Cornelius Van Til revolutionized Christian apologetics in the twentieth century. His system of the defense of the faith rejected the common practice among Christian apologists of assuming a neutral, autonomous point of view when confronting unbelief. In its place he urged a presuppositional, theonomic approach of establishing the … Continue reading THE “Butler” article
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