Two Epistemological Arguments for the Existence of God
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.v10i1.1889Keywords:
God, theistic arguments, epistemology, natural theologyAbstract
In this article I outline two epistemological theistic arguments. The first one starts from the dilemma between our strong conviction that we possess some knowledge of the world and the belief that there are some serious reasons which undermine it. In my opinion theism opens the possibility of the way out of the dilemma. The second argument depends on the premise that in every time every worldly thing is actually perceived or known. I support it by four considerations and claim that the simplest explanation of the epistemic ‘non-loneliness’ of the world is the existence of the Supreme Cogniser.
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