The First Principles are undeniable or
reducible to the undeniable. They are either self-evident or reducible
to the self-evident. And self-evident principles are either true by
their nature or undeniable because the predicate is reducible to the
subject. That the predicate is reducible to the subject means that one
cannot deny the principle without using it. For example, the principle
of non-contradiction cannot be denied without using it in the very
denial. The statement: "Opposites cannot be true" assumes that the opposite of that statements cannot be true.
Not all skeptics or agnostics are willing to grant that the principle
of causality, which is crucial in all cosmological arguments for God, is
an undeniable first principle. Indeed, not every skeptic is willing to
admit that something exists (the principle of existence). Thus,it is
necessary to comment on their undeniability.
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