Van Til
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Deduction, Induction & TAG
Deduction as a construct does not bring forth knowledge any more than induction. Inductivists try to move from what seems plausible, or considered most probably the case, to establishing veracity for a hypothesis. Induction is “open ended” because induction as a process is never fully exhaustive. Rather, it comes to an end once one is… Continue reading
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The Philosophical and Moral Impotency of Natural Law in Refuting Homosexuality
Although all men know by nature that homosexuality is sin, it’s only through Scripture that one can adequately defend the claim. (Natural theology types are free to try sometime.) Since most people are autonomous in their thinking it’s understandable why most cannot justify with any consistency (and without avoiding arbitrariness) the claim that homosexuality is… Continue reading
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Univocal Of The Analogical (part ii)
When ectypal knowledge obtains, the object of it must be true. If the object is true, then God must believe it (since God believes all truth). God believes it as it truly is, an analogy of the archetypal knowledge, which only God has (knowledge of the archetypal). Assume all our thoughts of God are analogical.… Continue reading
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Univocal Of The Analogical (part i)
Regarding the Clark / Van Til controversy of the 1940s these points were innocuous. 1. Both sides affirmed a quantitative difference between God’s knowledge and man’s. The disagreement wasn’t so trivial as to pertain to the number of propositions known or how they exhaustively relate to each other. Surely, both sides agreed. God knows more… Continue reading
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