(December 21, 2016 at 6:01 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(December 21, 2016 at 5:54 pm)Simon Moon Wrote: Please continue...
You must first explicitly affirm that these are empirically obvious facts.
I would also ask you to confirm that you believe in the efficacy of human reason and that reality is intelligible. Why? Because it would be pointless to present a logical demonstration only to find that the audience denies that human reason cannot lead to knowledge or that knowledge about the world cannot be actually be attained.
First you need to clearly define the term "exist".
But, for the sake of your argument, I will stipulate that those are empirically obvious facts.
I will also agree that human reason is effective and that reality is intelligible.
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
