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Live Not by Lies: Do Not Abandon Sense-Making

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Live Not by Lies: Do Not Abandon Sense-Making

Live Not by Lies: Do Not Abandon Sense-Making

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is part 2 in a series. One thing that I learned from Dr. J. Lennox of Oxford is that it’s imperative to test the premises and data of assertions, no matter the credentials and subject mastery of the person making the assertion. We don’t just need good reasoning, but also good logic. Logic is the fundamental rules that we apply to reasoning to “reason from A to B.” It’s…

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Logic, Reasoning, and Worship

Logic, Reasoning, and Worship

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s important that we have not only good reasoning, but sound logic. Christians are often accused, and sometimes correctly, of being brain-drained folks who, at times, don’t even know why they believe what they believe. When that’s true, it limits our ability to influence people, and leads to a populace that is increasingly one of darkness. Logic is the fundamental rules that we apply to reasoning to “reason from A…

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Truth, Morality, and Anti-Realism (AKA: Somethin’ ain’t right with that boy, I’ll tell you hwat!”)

Truth, Morality, and Anti-Realism (AKA: Somethin’ ain’t right with that boy, I’ll tell you hwat!”)

Lucas Necessary

Reading Time: 4 minutesTruth and morality tend to be tied together; without truth, there tends to be no morality, at least so far as anyone can elucidate as being objectively codifiable. One benefit of backpacking, at least for me, is that I can listen to a variety of bright folks (well, Dr. Jordan Peterson would probably contend that I’m listening to a variety of people with PhDs, among whom some are bright) talking…

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