Monday, November 26, 2012

Brass Tacks


I believe

[all reason-based interpretations of truth are fallible in that they depend upon an initial leap of faith to substantiate their claims.  Faith and reason are irreconcilable faculties of evaluation which value opposing kinds of proof to derive their conclusions.  They are irreconcilable but not equal.  Whereas faith has the potential to be self-authenticating (i.e. within the act of instantaneous conviction) reason is dependent on a logical articulation of its authority before it can be authenticated (reason by any other name is belief).  Because articulated, authentication occurs in a temporal space, there is a retroactive verification process whose gap allows one to challenge the authority of reason by applying rational inquiry to its articulated laws.]

and it is so.

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