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Eastern Orthodoxy is truth, Jesus Christ is, and we need to repent to be saved from eternal damnation:
The use of reason, logic, evidence, arguments is not something proven by experience. It is that by which one proceeds to prove everything else.
However, one nevertheless has to ground and justify that reason etc. work and are valid operations for what they think these operations can obtain and establish.
The problem is that man, locked within his own sphere of reason, cannot appeal to what is in question (reason etc.) to establish that reason, logic and arguments are valid and work.
This would be to engage in the fallacy of circular reasoning ("question begging") and epistemic bootstrapping.
Transcendental arguments typically have the following form:
For x to be the case, y must also be the case, since y is the precondition of x.
Since x is the case, y is the case.
The Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God (TAG) demonstrates, that there is only one unique condition that will satisfy the conditions for the possibility of knowledge, rationality, logic and arguments, it is the Orthodox Christian God as He has revealed Himself to us (revelation is required since we are unable to get out of the epistemic quagmire of circularity).
TAG argues from the impossibility of the contrary.
The contrary of Orthodoxy is shown to be impossible. And if the negation of Orthodox Christianity is false, then Orthodox Christianity is proved true.
The structure of the argument is a disjunctive syllogism.
Either A or not-A; not-not-A; therefore A.
If TAG establishes that Orthodox Christianity is the necessary precondition
for rationality, then it follows, that we must presuppose the
Orthodox worldview as it has been revealed in order to be rational.
If someone refuses to accept the Orthodox worldview, then they have no foundation for rationality and, without such a foundation, they have no rational basis for mounting an objection against TAG or the conclusion of TAG.
The use of reason, logic, evidence, arguments is not something proven by experience. It is that by which one proceeds to prove everything else.
However, one nevertheless has to ground and justify that reason etc. work and are valid operations for what they think these operations can obtain and establish.
The problem is that man, locked within his own sphere of reason, cannot appeal to what is in question (reason etc.) to establish that reason, logic and arguments are valid and work.
This would be to engage in the fallacy of circular reasoning ("question begging") and epistemic bootstrapping.
Transcendental arguments typically have the following form:
For x to be the case, y must also be the case, since y is the precondition of x.
Since x is the case, y is the case.
The Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God (TAG) demonstrates, that there is only one unique condition that will satisfy the conditions for the possibility of knowledge, rationality, logic and arguments, it is the Orthodox Christian God as He has revealed Himself to us (revelation is required since we are unable to get out of the epistemic quagmire of circularity).
TAG argues from the impossibility of the contrary.
The contrary of Orthodoxy is shown to be impossible. And if the negation of Orthodox Christianity is false, then Orthodox Christianity is proved true.
The structure of the argument is a disjunctive syllogism.
Either A or not-A; not-not-A; therefore A.
If TAG establishes that Orthodox Christianity is the necessary precondition
for rationality, then it follows, that we must presuppose the
Orthodox worldview as it has been revealed in order to be rational.
If someone refuses to accept the Orthodox worldview, then they have no foundation for rationality and, without such a foundation, they have no rational basis for mounting an objection against TAG or the conclusion of TAG.
