That seems to be the normal progression.... But jeepers, the flaw is in the first step the expectation that sensory perception gives us an exhaustive picture of reality, and that reason itself has no limits. Both presuppositions can be shown to be false.
But if we want to embrace such notions, really, we're in tough "ontological shape" because our epistemology is faulty. As you point out, to reduce the world to the competence of the human intellect to make man the measure, in other words is to falsify reality. And thereby, to falsify one's own position in it.
I gather it is the persistent desire to live in untruth that causes one to suffer the second death....
Thank you ever so much for your beautiful essay/post, dearest sister in Christ!
I gather it is the persistent desire to live in untruth that causes one to suffer the second death....