Presuppositionalism, to me, is a way for small people to feel big by playing word games with others who might not be as philosophically well read or well-versed at refuting philosophical bullshit when they're hit with it so intensely as presups are prone to do.
If presuppositionalism is so irrefutable, why aren't the presup apologists turning their focus to those they could actually have a conversation with instead of the average person off the street who has probably never even considered matters of philosophy? Is that honest? No. Just like it's not honest for a microbiologist to walk up to a regular person on the street and start grilling them about... whatever microbiologists talk about and then claim victory when the other person doesn't know what "Conservation of the PTEN catalytic motif in the bacterial undecaprenyl pyrophosphate phosphatase, BacA/UppP" means. (I totally just googled that.)
Oh, that's right, presuppers are not interested in having a conversation, they just want to make people look stupid and reflectively bask in the glory of having made that someone look stupid.
If presuppositionalism is so irrefutable, why aren't the presup apologists turning their focus to those they could actually have a conversation with instead of the average person off the street who has probably never even considered matters of philosophy? Is that honest? No. Just like it's not honest for a microbiologist to walk up to a regular person on the street and start grilling them about... whatever microbiologists talk about and then claim victory when the other person doesn't know what "Conservation of the PTEN catalytic motif in the bacterial undecaprenyl pyrophosphate phosphatase, BacA/UppP" means. (I totally just googled that.)
Oh, that's right, presuppers are not interested in having a conversation, they just want to make people look stupid and reflectively bask in the glory of having made that someone look stupid.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.
