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Why Is the Cosmos Comprehensible? | Melissa Cain Travis

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The Pythagorean Theorem Holds

This is so similar to what Lewis does in miracles, where he critiques the idea of materialism. And it's also similar to Alvin Pleninga's evolutionary argument against naturalism. How do you know you can believe your monkey mind? Right. It turns out why your brain and the thoughts that it produces should have any relation to reality. There's just no reason for it.

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