The logic-based engine presents the full machinery of Existential Logicism in explicit detail. The system is thoroughly structured and numbered, with each major concept supported by an appendix that includes formal logical breakdowns. Definitions are provided for terms, concepts, and symbols so that the framework can be followed step by step, rather than treated as a black box.
Some portions of the work are necessarily abstract, particularly where axioms are derived or clarified through symbolic logic. For that reason, the material is best suited for readers who already have some familiarity with philosophy, theology, or the history of formal argument, and who are interested in engaging at a deeper structural level rather than only at the level of conclusions.
The intent is not obscurity or gatekeeping. The goal is clarity through precision. Where abstraction appears, it is in service of making the logical commitments explicit and traceable. The framework is designed to be usable for careful study, serious critique, and structured debate. Ultimately, the aim is to communicate the ideas as clearly and thoroughly as possible, within the limits of the author’s own understanding and articulation.
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The Logic-Based Tool is a guided journey through the core philosophical, theological, and historical arguments that have shaped and divided human thought for thousands of years. The book repeatedly returns to a simple but powerful question: what, if anything, cannot be denied?
By framing inquiry this way, the work establishes a shared ground that any living, experiencing being must stand on, whether theist, atheist, or anywhere in between. Starting from this ground floor allows much of the metaphysical baggage that has clouded these debates to fall away, not by dismissal, but by clarity.
The result is a way of thinking about reality that preserves meaning, depth, and wonder without appealing to authoritative dogma, mysticism, or abstract concepts that collapse under careful logical scrutiny. Rather than asking readers to accept conclusions, the book invites them to walk through the reasoning step by step and see what survives when denial is no longer an option.
This book is written for a general audience. It does not require formal training in logic, and it does not rely on dense notation or heavily numbered structures. It is thorough, but intentionally approachable. For readers who want the same ideas expressed with full formal machinery, symbolic structure, and explicit derivations, the next step is the Logic-Based Engine.
Finite Mind, Finite God is an application of the logical framework developed in Existential Logicism. It applies that structure to theology by asking a prior question that most God debates skip: what can a finite epistemic agent actually mean when it asserts, denies, or argues about ultimacy?
This is not an atheism versus theism debate, and it is not a critique of religion as a social phenomenon. The method is internal and disciplined. I argue from within authoritative texts and widely accepted interpretive conventions, using a steelman hermeneutic so that each tradition is evaluated under its strongest coherent reading rather than its weakest literalization.
The central claim is structural. When God concepts are held to maximal clarity and to their own internal logic, they tend to collapse into one of two stable outcomes. Either “God” functions as a finite agent within reality, meaning a being with preferences, actions, and directed intentions, and therefore not ultimate in the strict sense. Or “God” functions as genuine ultimacy, in which case the concept drifts toward totality or an ineffable ground that cannot be captured by finite predicates. In that second case, finite agents cannot legitimately derive high-resolution, binding public authority from the concept, especially not authority sufficient to justify coercive laws, enforced doctrine, or war.
The practical goal is not to strip human life of meaning. It is to remove the illusion that finite maps can be treated as ultimate territory. Human beings are living, experiencing systems, and moral force remains fully real inside experience. In Existential Logicism, the Contingency Guillotine rejects the idea of stance-free objective moral law, and Deterministic Moral Forces explains why moral reality still carries force in a determined world. Finite Mind, Finite God extends that same honesty to theology by clarifying what survives the collapse of the God/no-God frame, and what cannot survive without contradiction.

