VERY Basic Doctrines of Calvinism

[The Architect Of Fate]

Fair enough and a well-presented position. At the same time, and this is not a personal criticism; but rather an observation of a tendency of yours to adopt a skeptical stance against any form of realism. Yet, credibility is almost by definition a subjective standard and appealing to evidence hardly applies to the "animal faith" we have in external reality and the inner-sense some have of the divine presence. My wonder is to what someone, such as yourself, who seems to deny any form of realism, appeals in order to make claims of objectivity.

I'm not against realism.  As Wittgenstein has said, many problems that seem to be problems of philosophy are rather problems of language.  For whatever reason, the rather limited distance the apple has rolled from the tree of naive concepts and frameworks in philosphy isn't enough to carve nature at her joints.  I'm dissatisfied with any frameworks that glosses over this problem.  I don't have the answer, but not continuing the mistakes of the past seems a good place to start.  Objective?  Relative?  This all just seems like blind men describing their different experiences of an elephant.  The problem of universals is similar.  I don't think it will ever be resolved by building on top of old conceptions of substance and in unreflective mereological assumptions.

"Animal faith" and " inner-sense some have of the divine presence" 

mystic babble