Eastern Orthodox TAG vs. Materialist Atheism
Can materialism account for the preconditions of intelligibility — logic, mathematics, morality?
Interlocutors: Jay Dyer · Cornelius Van Til · Gila Sher
Strict Materialism
The philosophical position that only physical matter exists; all phenomena — consciousness, reason, morality — are reduc...
The Immaterial Preconditions
The laws of logic, mathematics, and objective morality that materialism must presuppose but cannot account for within a ...
The Problem of Induction
Hume's observation that the regularity of nature cannot be established empirically without presupposing the very regular...
Vicious Circularity
Materialism's argument chain terminates in vicious circular justification: science validates itself, logic is asserted w...
The Transcendental Argument (TAG)
The argument that immaterial, universal, necessary laws of logic, the uniformity of nature, and objective morality can o...
The Triune God
The Orthodox claim that the Triune God — Father, Son (Logos), and Holy Spirit — is the axiomatic foundation upon which l...
Materialist Collapse
The complete epistemic collapse of materialism: every attempt to justify its foundational claims terminates in vicious c...