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I have not seen a single argument for anything that wasn’t either tautological or circular, and I don’t think it’s possible to make non-tautological or non-circular arguments. You either say something is true because it’s true or say that it’s true because other things make it true, but how would you know whether those other things are true or not? How would one test the validity of the truth without appealing to some divine authority inherent in the truth? How do you know that the truth is true? Heaven was the standpoint from which the earth used to be moved, but now that we have lost heaven, we have lost the authority of the truth.