Jaki, S.L. IS THERE A UNIVERSE? 1993

viii Theological discourse about such a revelation has always lacked firm basis and consistency in the measure in which attention failed to be given to the reality of the universe. The universe remains also the ground that alone can assure consistency to scientific as well as philosophical discourse.

4 Kant roamed across a science-coated fantasy world as he listed in the same work [Allg. Naturgesch.] the physical and moral characteristics of the inhabitants of each of the planets

26 Profuse talk about the evolution of entities served as an excuse for not facing up to the philosophical issues involved in the reality of those entities themselves

74 “The most important of the defects [of logical positivism] was that nearly all of it was false” [AJ Ayer]