Descartes tried and he ended up using the ontological argument to get out — Gregory
Leszek Kolakowski(Descartes') reasoning that we can trust our cognitive abilities on the basis of the truthfulness of God is far from convincing, not only because his arguments for God's existence are flawed, but because he assumed that the reliability of our perception and our logical instruments was based on God's moral perfection and the resulting certainty that He cannot deceive us. But God's goodness and omniscience do not necessarily mean that he can never mislead us. It cannot be excluded a priori that the truth, let alone the whole truth, is harmful to imperfect creatures and that in some cases it is good for us to be misinformed. In any case, there is nothing obvious in the assumption that truth cannot conflict with other goods; this would have to be demonstrated separately.
I don't know if your argument just works for you but is incapable of working in other minds, keep in mind that other people have different logical aparatuses and that you argument may never work for some people, and not to their fault. — Gregory
What is your analysis? If logic breaks down here, does it break down in your argument by implication? — Gregory
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