PART ONE
The Judeo-Christian theological edifice rests partly
upon a valid epistemological and ontological construct, which is predicated on
certain assumptions a priori that are self-evident and knowable, within the
confines of normal cognitive experience.
We refer to epistemology, here, as a systemic construct
of certain principles upon which knowledge and knowability is intellectually
supported and validated within the limits of normal cognitive apprehension.
Furthermore, all abstraction that is predicated upon that
systemic epistemological construct is valid and verifiable if and only if that
abstraction is consistent with the systemic epistemological rules; otherwise
the abstractions are arbitrary because they are thus inconsistent with, and
foreign to, the systemic rules of the epistemological construct.
Thus new knowledge must obtain from prior knowledge that
is validated according to the epistemological construct. This principle is
referred to here as philosophical necessity. With regards to logical
statements we may state that the explandicum
must obtain from the explanatory premises in such a way that those premises
obtained from prior philosophical necessity.
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