(January 5, 2012 at 4:41 am)fr0d0 Wrote:(January 4, 2012 at 11:55 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Apologetics is bad philosophy
That's an ungrounded assertion. Presupposition is a philosophical conclusion resulting in a way of looking at things in the same way as any supposition.
Presupposition is necessarily unsound, it always states a premise that it cannot support. From presuppositionalism you can never deliver a sound argument and thus necessarily never demonstrate a fucking thing to be true.
Sure, you can make interesting arguments given that you assume x but you can they can never substantiate x, if they could it necessarily wouldn't be a presupposition.
If your world-view requires any kind of presupposition then you have a world-view that is necessarily irrational.
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