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Is Knowledge of God's Existence Properly Basic?
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RE: Is Knowledge of God's Existence Properly Basic?
I've just read Plantinga's argument, and it essentially boils down to that the believer is justified in taking the belief in god as properly basic due to his/her intuitions that a god is involved. He claims the fact that a person intuitively feels as if a god is responsible for something, i.e. creation, that person is justified in taking god's existence as properly basic. His only defense for those intuitions as basic appears to be that he isn't obligated to accept the classical foundationalist determination of what can taken as properly basic.

It's another one of those religious arguments that doesn't technically have any faulty logic apparent in it, but it doesn't really pass the smell test, either. And I have concluded that it's properly basic for me to accept that when I smell bullshit, bullshit is present.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell
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RE: Is Knowledge of God's Existence Properly Basic? - by Zone - September 17, 2013 at 2:33 pm
RE: Is Knowledge of God's Existence Properly Basic? - by Faith No More - September 17, 2013 at 3:39 pm

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