a href=”http://www.neiluchitel.com/archives/week_2004_06_13-2004_06_19.html#000118″ title=”DIGITUS, FINGER “>Neil Uchitel continues the discussion of epistemology with a long and intriguing post. I agree with a fair amount of what Neil says. I do, however, want to make something clear: I believe in absolute truth. I’m not advocating the view that the limits of human knowledge or the impact of the observer on the thing observed renders any notion of absolute truth false. Nor am I advocating postmodernism, understood as the view I just repudiated, as a valid alternative for Christians. What I do say is that we can’t simply dismiss postmodern epistemology by referring to some simple construct we call “knowledge” or “certainty.” In engaging postmodernism, we need to acknowledge that our definition of “knowledge” or “certainty” must be one based on a reasonable belief that our perceptions correspond to an actual reality. The realm of true and full epistemological certainty belongs only to God. Yet there is such a thing as true and full epistemological certainty, even if we cannot possess it in this life.
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