Raw LLM Responses

I would say that we all base our ontological and epistemological premises on presuppositions. Therefore, the smaller number of things one must presuppose the better. And in questions of ultimate authority it always comes down to a circular argument. For instance, as a Christian my ultimate authority is God's word, the Bible, BECAUSE the Bible tells me that it is God's word. A rationalist would stand on his reason as the ultimate authority BECAUSE he reasoned it so. The question of transcendence is an important one because if the ultimate authority in matters is self-contained there can be no transcendence...therefore we can't impose our ethic, for example, on any except ourselves.