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Bible Note: Dear CSM, You wrote, "No one should have, and I know I did not have presuppositions." Everyone, everywhere, all the time has presuppositions. I think you are mistaking the word for "prejudices" or something. Presuppositions are simply our basic beliefs. Let me quote a good friend of mine, in answer to the question, "What is a presupposition?" "A presupposition is a ultimate assumption or foundational unquestioned principle which is or assumed to be true in the course of argument for the purpose of making other points. A presupposition is really an undergirding belief that precedes all other beliefs a person has; It is a belief that governs all our other beliefs or the most fundamental commitment of our heart and mind. Each person insists on some ultimate category of thought or conceptual framework which he must assume in order to make a sensible interpretation of reality. All of our arguments are ultimately settled only by appealing to the soundness of our first principles. Unbelievers start with the presupposition that man can be as God in the sense of being his own ultimate authority and erroneously believes he can do so successfully. For Christians we adopt the Word of God to evaluate all other beliefs, and must regard it with certainty. Reason must be the servant of Revelation (God’s Word). It is a view that places the Christian world-view and it’s basic assumptions over against the non-Christian world-view and basic assumptions!" --John Hendryx Presuppositions are not bad things. However, some presuppositions are false and some presuppositions are true. You were claiming that it was intuitively obvious to every man that he consists is composed of three parts. I'd call that an over-generalization. There are three common views held in philosophy: monism, dichotomy, and trichotomy. The fact that three different terms exist clearly implies there are people who do not agree with your claim. In Him, Doc |