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drchaffee (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
Why, besides personal preference, must epistemology be grounded in the manner you suggest?
OntoLogos (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
The non-theist has primary rational commitments to tautologies; they have a epistemology based on brute sensual perception and they know this from sensual persecution. And the non-theist is trapped by his post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy. For one to have a coherent epistemology one has to rise above matter and autonomy. The Logos has the rational endowment to bring certainty and coherence.
OntoLogos (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
If you deny objective menaing, then I interpret that assertion as the antithesis of it and that you do affirm objective truth, that truth found in Christ.That game is self-nullifying.
DeimosSaturn (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
This is a deliciously decadent fumble of semantics. He speaks with such authority on the subject of "meaning" and yet doesn't even understand the concept of "quantity" or "quality". Life is not "meaningless" in the subjective sense, only in the objective sense. It's very simple to understand.
abstracht (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
what is the meaning of fudge?not all grammatically correct sentences are meaningful. "life is meaningless" is a meaningless, albeit common, statement.suppose God created us for His amusement, so to speak. that still would not mean the purpose of life is to amuse Him, but only that His purpose in creating us was amusement.ps what do you think of theological noncognitivism?strongatheism(dot)net(slash)library(slash)atheology(slash)argument_from_noncognitivism
deu64 (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
Atheism relies and rests on personal infallibility because an individual that denies God (who is an infallible & omniscient ground) who can reveal that the Laws of Logic and the Moral Law are perpetually true and valid.Without God, one can declare these things are true and will always be true, but a man cannot KNOW that they are true ALWAYS, infallibly and everywhere at all times.God can and God has & He alone supplies the epistemological environment for certain knowledge.
OntoLogos (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
Just as there is only one source that furnishes the rational pre-environment for the laws of thought (Christian theism), there is only one Savior who delivered an eternal propitiation andsoteriological justification.
OntoLogos (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
An ethical absolutist is certain that an adequate & consistent moral theory will produce accountability for honesty, & forbid dishonesty in regard to the scientific method, civil legal jurisprudence, school (exams). Moral duties support the proper function of the Laws of Reason & gives the imperatives necessary of understanding our world & to communicate that truthfully to others.Why should I absolutely be moral?
Magusim (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
Correct meaning is not objective. No, you don't have an invariant and universal source to ground epistemology. How exactly do you "know" your god won't change its mind about morality at any given moment? For all you know your god could be a lier. What is stopping your god from being a lier? What is stopping your god from changing the meaning behind anything. In order for there to be an invariant, it must be unconscious unthinking process that has no cause or reason of its own.
sneadley (December 31, 1969 at 11:59 pm)
Meaning IS man made. Meaning is what we interpret our world to mean. Meaning is created by man, for man, to be used by man. Our senses are our ONLY means to gathering data in the world around us and our brain uses what our senses give us to create meaning. There are no rules that supercede this fact. |
