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andyklein
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I am having trouble seeing how one can call him a rationalist if we must rely partly on sense perception to discover truths as they are “divinely illuminated.” Only after this illumination can we know truths, as I understand the theory. It seems very Hume-like in that it appears to be saying that if you give me a concept, I’ll show you how it is contrived by my sense perceptions.
Unless the theory, as Augustine puts it forward, only applies to necessary and eternal truths, and not “carnal” things as Plato would put it, since God would not allow us to “know” that proposition P if P is not relevant to our eternal fate.
Unless the theory, as Augustine puts it forward, only applies to necessary and eternal truths, and not “carnal” things as Plato would put it, since God would not allow us to “know” that proposition P if P is not relevant to our eternal fate.