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Dear Eitan Price and Casey Holman,
I am not a logician, nor do I believe in God (however I was raised Baptist, so I’m familiar with the concept). I can confidently say that much of your vocabulary, symbology and references went far over my head. However, I am a student of history and a lover of theory, and I certainly have quite a bit to say about the nature of truth and its transcendence.
If I am to understand your conclusion correctly, you are making the claim that all individual truths cannot be contained within their own category and are therefore transcendent of human capacity for understanding. I myself have reached this very same conclusion in my study of history, particularly when comparing the methodologies of history with those of other, more scientific fields…