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Tuesday, May 4, 2010

11. The Argument From Truth

This proof, from Augustine, is closely related to the argument from consciousness.

  1. "Our limited minds can discover eternal truths about being.
  2. Truth properly resides in a mind.
  3. But the human mind is not eternal.
  4. Therefore there must exist an eternal mind in which these truths reside" (Handbook of Catholic Apologetics, pg. 73)
If you believe, like Plato, "that there are Eternal Intelligible Forms that are present to the mind in every act of knowledge" (Handbook, pg. 73), than it is a short step to see these existing in an Eternal Mind. However, "there is too much about the theory of knowledge that needs to be said before this could work as a persuasive demonstration" (Handbook, pg. 73).


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