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For every argument there is an underlying premise. A set of assumptions already held, invisibly framing how the argument is received. These frames act as boundaries, shaping what feels plausible, what feels persuasive, and what is dismissed before it is fully heard.

Often these premises go unnoticed, undefined, and unchallenged. Presuppositions do much of the heavy lifting in our thinking, narrowing the space in which understanding can occur. We rarely encounter another person’s view on its own terms. More often, we filter it through the architecture of our own.

When conversations turn toward the existence of God, one such premise sits beneath nearly every disagreement: how do we decide what counts as real?

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