"God has not been so sparing to men to make them barely two-legged creatures, and left it to Aristotle to make them rational."    John Locke

"As I see it, the pragmatist is standing things on its head. She is putting descartes before dehorse. That is, if the laws of logic conceived of as universal and
normative were not already presupposed, it would be unintelligible to designate anything as "working" and try to distinguish that from what does *not* work. The
very attempt to draw a working/nonworking distinction *already presupposes* the laws of logic, e.g. the law of noncontradiction. In other words, she says that she
uses logic because it produces happiness and it works. But such a statement already draws a set of distinctions--hence presupposing logic--and makes a judgment
about them." - Sean Choi from the Apologia list

"Note that Van Til's epistemology is not foundationalist. Note also that discovering *what sort* of epistemic foundations obtain is different than discovering *whether* epistemic foundations obtain. Thus, the TA is directed not merely at indicating that there *must be* preconditions; a TA can only succeed if it also indicates *which* and *what kind* of  preconditions obtain--hence Van Til's insistence on the inseparability of the "that" and the "what". Finally, note
that Van Til understands a TA to be modal: the inquiry is not directed at the preconditions that *may* obtain, but at those that *must*. (The trick, then, is to start with a close conceptual analysis and end in necessity.)" - David Byron from the Van Til list

"Aristotle, 'the master of those who know,' as Dante called him, may have known more of the inner workings of Greek than anyone else who ever analyzed them. Even if that may be debatable, I think it significant that one of his 'categories of understanding' is TO PROS TI, usually conveyed as 'the category of relation.' One might say, of course, that ALL prepositions seem to involve relationship, but this one is distinct from others in underscoring 'contextual association' as one of the factors defining anything precisely. And in fact, that's helpful in understanding John 1:1b and 1:2: hO LOGOS HN PROS TON QEON: the BEING of the LOGOS is defined by its 'contextual relationship' to God, and was so defined, says John, EN ARCHi." Carl Conrad from the B-Greek list