Re: C. S. Lewis, Miracles, chapter three (the argument from reason)

On Jul 22, 3:53 am, "." <emans...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

C. S. Lewis, Miracles, chapter 3 (the argument from reason)

"No account of the universe can be true unless that account of the
universe leaves it possible for our thinking to be a real insight."

What is a 'real' insight? As opposed to other kinds of insight?

Lewis thinks that it is impossible to account for reason by
naturalism, because ground-consequent relations between thoughts
cannot be explained by cause-effect relations: "(T)he two systems are
wholly distinct. To be caused is not to be proved. . . The
implication is that if causes work inevitably, the belief would have
had to arise whether it had grounds or not."

So Lewis says nothing caused him to believe what he believes?





If we can't be sure that reason is reliable, then we cannot trust that
our reasoning about naturalism is true. But it does not necessarily
follow that naturalism cannot be true. It just means that naturalism
might be true, but we can't know.

Correct. A demon might be fooling us into believing that evolution
happened.
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