That's Impossible!!!

What do you do when you slam face first into a wall!

Not a literal wall...like ol' Wile Coyote from the Bugs Bunny/Road Runner Hour...but a wall in a discussion or argument?

You talk with someone...at length...about your views of reality and finally you and your opponent both come to the realization that each of you is standing upon an ultimate authority that you are presupposing and not proving.

What do you do then?

Do you say..."Well, you have your unproven ultimate authority [or presupposed beliefs] and I have mine...so there is no real way to show who is true and who isn't?"

No, that is no solution!

Instead there a form of reasoning to test to see if your presupposed ultimate authority is true, or false.

Some philosophers called this type of reasoning a "transcendental" argument.

It was reasoning that asked, what beliefs give the "precondition" for reality.

How this might look in a real life situation today is when you have a Christian arguing with a moralistic atheist. Both say they believe that certain things are wrong or evil. Both talk about love, fair play, and morality.

One side says that the Triune God of the Bible exists and that He has created all things and now governs all things...

The other side says we live in a world without a personal God...and that we are here because of random chance...

You can't merely look at what each side says they believe...LOOK DEEPER!!!

LOOK BELOW THE SURFACE OF THINGS!!!

One side presupposes the ultimate authority of the Triune God [as revealed in the Bible]...

The other side presupposes the ultimate authority of man and his reasoning...

Both say they believe in morality, love, good and evil...but what beliefs...actually make sense of these things?