The Logical Atheist

Anything outside reality is unreal. Anything inside reality is accessible in principle to reasoning beings. Where does that leave any god?

Language doesn't block us from direct cognitive contact with reality. It facilitates that contact. Philosophers who express disagreement, by that fact alone, can't help but confirm it.

The philosopher Etienne Gilson said, "Natural law buries its undertakers." It's true. So does, naturally, reality. Everyone knows that reality is independent of our wishes as well as accessible to reason. Everyone looks both ways before crossing a busy street. Everyone who is not suicidal stays away from the edge of a cliff. Everyone knows what the term reality check means.

Human beings act. Moreover, they act with remarkable success much of the time in big and small ways. Think of the inventions and discoveries ranging from life-easing to life-saving technologies. That seems to suggest two alternative stories. First, that reality is just a figment of our individual, tribal, or universal imaginations. Or second, that reality is real, objective, out there -- and that we rational animals can know it if we exert the effort. I submit the first story is completely implausible, not to mention self-contradictory. That leaves the second one standing.