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The Infinite Regress of Causes: What Cosmological Arguments Actually Need
Cosmological arguments don't fail for lack of ambition—they fail because the move from 'causes exist' to 'a first cause exists' is harder than it looks.
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Secularism and the Census: How States Count Religion
When governments ask citizens about religion, the question is never neutral — the design of the question shapes what the data can and cannot tell us.
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Negative Theology's Limit: When Silence Becomes Unfalsifiable
Apophatic theology avoids anthropomorphism by refusing all positive claims about God, but this epistemic humility carries a hidden cost: the position becomes immune to scrutiny.
Philosophy
The Regress Problem: Why Justification Has to Stop Somewhere
Every belief justified by another belief faces an infinite regress—epistemology's most stubborn structural problem and what the main solutions actually cost.
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