Doug Blount

Stand-Up Philosopher

[Doug Blount @dougblount]

For Audrey and Eden https://t.co/4e1qjtnluJ via @katiejeanbrown

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@BMcGrewvy In that case, it isn't inherited but rather well earned.

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@BMcGrewvy Nope. Nothing "bad faith" in my tweets.

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@BMcGrewvy You are certainly correct, I think. No sarcasm intended, btw. I appreciate the heads up. 🙂

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@BMcGrewvy Ah. Well, thanks. 🙂

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@theistinthought @BMcGrewvy No, he owns it explicitly in the Foundations text.

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@BMcGrewvy Why? I mean why is this whole Twitter reply thing not my thing? Perhaps you think me too old and unhip for it? Is the reply thing here supposed to be a sort of hit and run affair?

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@BMcGrewvy And it strikes me as ironical that you want to run away from a reasonable discussion when you take yourself to be a champion of reason. But I must be missing something.

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@BMcGrewvy I have no doubt you are. More's the pity for you.

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@BMcGrewvy If so, I think the best tag is Augustinian.

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@BMcGrewvy Nope. My students can tell you I am an adamant opponent of presuppositionalism. Ironically, presuppositionalism is itself a product -- albeit a weird reactionary one -- of the Enlightenment. To think a rejecting majesterial reason is presuppositional shows an Enlightenment bias.

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@BMcGrewvy Btw, my father is an actuary. But I myself don't know the first thing about creating actuarial tables. I didn't know philosophical knowledge was inheritable.

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@BMcGrewvy I didn't say it wasn't. It isn't indeed a marvelous SERVANT. But it's a terrible MASTER. A properly Christian view of reason is a ministerial, not a majestical one. You are aware that the Enlightenment and its idolization of reason is no friend to the church, aren't you?

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@BMcGrewvy And I myself am a professional philosopher. Your take on reason seems naive.

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@BMcGrewvy My point is that evidentialism, like logical positivism, sets forth a criterion for rationality which it cannot itself meet.

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@BMcGrewvy First "isn't" should be "is."

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@theistinthought @BMcGrewvy He says the early church fathers who condemned Apollonaris's view didn't understand the view they were rejecting. But he apparently does.

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@theistinthought @BMcGrewvy Yes. He explicitly affirms Apollonarianism, which is of course a Christological heresy. This is in his and J P Moreland's Foundations for a Christian Worldview. That's one example. I've known WLC personally for about 25 years and consider him a friend, so this saddens me greatly.