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To: Aquinasfan
...it is essential to address the notion of objective truth. Yes, it exists. Yes, we can be certain of it. And yes, we can logically refute any attack against it.

Putting aside the question of what you mean by "objective truth," I notice that you left out:

And yes, we can know with certainty whether or not any particular proposition is an objective truth.

Knowing that objective truth exists as an ontological category is different than knowing what is contained within that category, no?
9 posted on 10/31/2001 9:55:37 AM PST by BikerNYC
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To: BikerNYC
And yes, we can know with certainty whether or not any particular proposition is an objective truth.

We can know with certainty that any proposition that is deduced from first principles is true. OTOH, most of the "truths" that we know, we know with probability.

As for whether we can trust our senses, I will be posting Thomas' epistemology later on.

11 posted on 10/31/2001 10:36:56 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: BikerNYC
And yes, we can know with certainty whether or not any particular proposition is an objective truth.

We can know with certainty that any proposition that is deduced from first principles is true. OTOH, most of the "truths" that we know, we know with probability.

As for whether we can trust our senses, I will be posting Thomas' epistemology later on.

12 posted on 10/31/2001 10:39:18 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: BikerNYC
And yes, we can know with certainty whether or not any particular proposition is an objective truth.

We can know with certainty that any proposition that is deduced from first principles is true. OTOH, most of the "truths" that we know, we know with probability.

As for whether we can trust our senses, I will be posting Thomas' epistemology later on.

13 posted on 10/31/2001 10:40:59 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: BikerNYC
And yes, we can know with certainty whether or not any particular proposition is an objective truth.

We can know with certainty that any proposition that is deduced from first principles is true. OTOH, most of the "truths" that we know, we know with probability.

As for whether we can trust our senses, I will be posting Thomas' epistemology later on.

14 posted on 10/31/2001 11:02:25 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: BikerNYC
And yes, we can know with certainty whether or not any particular proposition is an objective truth.

We can know with certainty that any proposition that is deduced from first principles is true. OTOH, most of the "truths" that we know, we know with probability.

As for whether we can trust our senses, I will be posting Thomas' epistemology later on.

15 posted on 10/31/2001 11:03:44 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: BikerNYC
And yes, we can know with certainty whether or not any particular proposition is an objective truth.

We can know with certainty that any proposition that is deduced from first principles is true. OTOH, most of the "truths" that we know, we know with probability.

As for whether we can trust our senses, I will be posting Thomas' epistemology later on.

18 posted on 10/31/2001 11:17:12 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: BikerNYC
And yes, we can know with certainty whether or not any particular proposition is an objective truth.

We can know with certainty that any proposition that is deduced from first principles is true. OTOH, most of the "truths" that we know, we know with probability.

As for whether we can trust our senses, I will be posting Thomas' epistemology later on.

19 posted on 10/31/2001 11:21:49 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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To: BikerNYC
And yes, we can know with certainty whether or not any particular proposition is an objective truth.

We can know with certainty that any proposition that is deduced from first principles is true. OTOH, most of the "truths" that we know, we know with probability.

As for whether we can trust our senses, I will be posting Thomas' epistemology later on.

21 posted on 10/31/2001 11:28:37 AM PST by Aquinasfan
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