Afterthought
Puritan Board Senior
One argument for God's existence says that, since we are finite and could not verify any fact to have the quality of truth, we could not know anything unless an absolute, infinite, eternal, and unchangeable Mind existed to verify the facts. To this, it is added that this is not the only precondition of knowledge, but the Mind must reveal Himself too. Why is this last point a precondition?
I suppose one might say that we need to know the Mind exists in order for this precondition to do any good, and we could only know this Mind exists if the Mind revealed Himself. But couldn't we stop at the first line of argument and say, "But we do know things. Therefore, this Mind exists"? That is, the bare fact that we know things shows knowledge is possible and so we can conclude this Mind exists? Cause if we could argue like this, then the Mind revealing Himself is not necessary for knowledge to be possible.
I suppose one might say that we need to know the Mind exists in order for this precondition to do any good, and we could only know this Mind exists if the Mind revealed Himself. But couldn't we stop at the first line of argument and say, "But we do know things. Therefore, this Mind exists"? That is, the bare fact that we know things shows knowledge is possible and so we can conclude this Mind exists? Cause if we could argue like this, then the Mind revealing Himself is not necessary for knowledge to be possible.