He has never written about his theory of knowledge, but it seems clear to me what it is. Let me quote from Page 22 from his book Plunder and Deceit, "In the first place and in the end, we must rely on our individual and collective capacity, albeit imperfect and fallible, for sound judgement and right reason. There are eternal and unchangeable universal truths, that no professor, politician, expert, or combination thereof can alter invalidate."
We all possess the individual and collective capacity for sound judgement and right reason. We can think clearly and concisely about our unalienable rights that grow out of natural law. Levin, Prager and Larry Arnn all believe in eternal and unchangeable universal truths, authored by and flowing out from God, are made intelligible to those seeking for divine answers and guidance, applying their sound judgement and right reason to solving problems and puzzles that arise.
These conservative intellectuals are dogmatists or epitstemists, or optimists that objective truth is exists, and is graspable by those clear-minded thinkers applying their sound judgement and right reason to questions facing us.
I am an epistemological moderate. I do not know if objective truths exist, or if they do, if they are available to or comprehensible to the limited human intellect. Still, I love right reason, and believe the these conservative intellectuals, with their epistemic optimism, are correct at least to the degree of probable certainty, and that standard is one that I feel that humans can comfortably and honestly hang their hat on.
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