Sublime

This rational capacity to think and to act in obedience to absolute or transcendental values constitutes a dependency of consciousness upon a dimension of reality found nowhere within the physical order. It is a capacity for something that nature cannot “see,” and a desire at once inexhaustible and often remarkably impractical.

volitional

There must, then, be knowledge that is both synthetic and a priori. Otherwise, science is impossible.

‘Anselm's ontological argument’.1 In one version or another, ontological arguments are particularly appealing to many philosophers. This appeal has something to do with the remarkable fact that we are supposed to be able to find out, just by thinking correctly, all that we need to know to see them prove their point.

Over against presuppositionalism are the evidentialists and the self-styled classical apologists. Evidentialists hold that the fall, though certainly keeping sinful man from reentering Eden by human effort or will, did not destroy his capacity to distinguish fact from non-fact,