Refract

Thursday, February 12, 2004

Very interesting.

I think I finally for the first time put into words the foundation of my belief system.

Basically, I believe in any closed axiomatic system of beliefs, that is, any belief system that conforms to the definition, "an axiomatic system is closed if and only if it is entirely internally consistent."

I can only find one point of pure faith excepting rationalism in that definition: An axiomatic system is closed if there are no contradictions, that is, open questions that may be answered in an internally consistent form still constitute a closed axiomatic system. That's, of course, irrational, but as Christian apologists everywhere have argued, the basis of the worldview axiom is by definition, faith.