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properly basic

Are there sufficient reasons to believe in God? My Opening Statement

November 2, 2020 by Randal

In May, 2020, I participated in a debate on this question: Are there sufficient reasons to believe in God? My debate partner Sam and I divvied up the labor as follows: I argued that there are sufficient ‘reasons’ (i.e. properly basic grounds) to believe in God. Meanwhile, Sam argued that there are sufficient non-basic reasons […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, foundationalism, properly basic, rationality, theism

Belief in God as Properly Basic? The Debate Continues

August 22, 2016 by Randal

I just finished listening to this week’s episode of “Unbelievable”, titled “Is belief in God ‘properly basic’? Tyler McNabb vs Stephen Law.” Incredibly, Justin mentioned that this is the first time they’ve devoted a show to the epistemological question of whether belief in God can be properly basic. Given that it is a topic which […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, God, properly basic, Stephen Law, Tyler McNabb, Unbelievable

Why knowledge must begin in faith rather than evidence

May 5, 2013 by Randal

In “Testimony as Properly Basic” I outlined a simple way that a person could be justified in believing that “Jesus rose from the dead”. Instead of appealing to doxastic processes that are accepted only by Christians (e.g. the Internal Instigation of the Holy Spirit) I based my account on a mundane source of knowledge and rational […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: epistemology, evidence, faith, justification, knowledge, properly basic, reason, testimony

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