Scientism & Philosophical Arguments

[Neo-Scholastic]

The reason why we can trust the knowledge we have already gained.

Ooh. So if a scientific result we thought was correct turns out to be false, it shows that reliable truth can only be found with God, and if a scientific result turns out to be correct, it shows how God's grace made it reliable. You can't lose!

That's not what I mean. When natural science gets detached from absolutes, the kind that provide a glimpse of Nature’s God, nothing rationally justifies efficient causality, the reliability of intellect, objective being, or consideration of essential natures. The validity of any particular proposition based on an uncritically accepted ‘brute fact’ devolves into either 1) an infinite regress of prior propositions or 2) a vicious circle in which the series of supporting propositions loops back to include the original premise.