Stilwell, Phil: ◉ The Dependency Inflation Problem: Formalizing Why Knowledge Does Not Presuppose God

Christian apologists often argue that knowledge tacitly depends on God. The dependence claim appears in several forms: the Transcendental Argument for God, the claim that reliable cognition requires design, the claim that morality is necessary for rational normativity, the claim that induction presupposes divine uniformity, and the claim that revelation is needed to secure truth. Their shared defect is dependency inflation: a real or arguable dependence relation is enlarged into a specifically t