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#433 Can I Know Anything For Sure? - Pat Flynn

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Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 June 2022

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Apologist Pat Flynn, from the Philosophy for the People podcast, gets down to basics with us to defend the idea that we can, indeed, know things with certainty. This defense of knowledge helps when we are confronted with the argument that no one really knows anything for sure. Cy Kellett: How can we even know anything? Pat Flynn is next. Cy Kellett: Hello, and welcome to Focus, the Catholic answers podcast for living, understanding, and defending your Catholic faith. I’m Cy Kellett, your host, and Pat Flynn is here with us today to help us settle something that is very unsettled and it …

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How can we even know anything?

0:01.4

Pat Flynn is next.

0:07.4

Hello and welcome to Focus.

0:08.5

The Catholic Cancer's podcast for living, understanding,

0:11.2

and defending your Catholic faith.

0:13.6

I'm Sy Kelly at your host.

0:14.9

And Pat Flynn is here with us today to help us settle

0:18.3

something that is very unsettled.

0:20.0

And it probably shouldn't be unsettled

0:22.0

in the modern world, but it is quite unsettled.

0:24.1

How do we know anything?

0:25.1

And this is important for the apologist,

0:28.8

any apologist, but certainly for the Christian apologists,

0:31.7

we say certain things are true and that we know them to be true.

0:34.4

And we know them with such a certainty

0:36.7

that we entrust our lives to these things that we know,

0:39.3

for example, God's revelation, but also moral truths

0:42.7

that are derived from philosophy and whatnot.

0:44.9

And often the objection to that is not,

0:48.4

that's not true, the objection is,

0:51.4

well, nobody can know that for sure.

0:53.4

Or how could you even know that?

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