Defense of the Faith by Cornelius Van Til
On the assumptions of the natural man logic is a timeless impersonal principle, and facts are controlled by chance. It is by means of universal timeless principles of logic that natural man must, on his assumptions, seek to make intelligible assertions about the world of reality or chance. But this cannot be done without falling into self-contradiction. About chance no manner of assertion can be made, In its very idea it is the irrational. And how are rational assertions to be made about the irrational? If they are to be made then it must be because the irrational is itself wholly reduced to the rational. That is to say if the intelligible man is to make any intelligible assertions about the world of 'reality' or 'fact' which, according to him, is what it is for no rational reason at all, then he must make the virtual claim of rationalizing the irrational.
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