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God, Truth, and other Enigmas.
The book God, Truth, and other Enigmas is a collection of eighteen essays that fall under four headings: (God's) Existence/Non-Existence, Omniscience, Truth, and Metaphysical Enigmas. The essays vary widely in topic and tone. They provide the reader with an overview of contemporary philosophica...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin/Boston :
De Gruyter,
2015.
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| Colección: | Philosophische Analyse / Philosophical Analysis.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgements; A Guide to the Book: God, Truth, and other Enigmas; Part I (God's) Existence/Non-Existence; Logical Necessity, Conceptual Necessity, and the Ontological Argument; 1 What is Logical Necessity (Logical Modality)?; 2 Conceptual Modality; 3 Terse Formalization of a Hartshornian Modal Ontological Argument; 4 A "Fitchy" Argument for Premise (2); 5 The Crucial Premise; Problem of the Origins of Ontotheology; 1 Towards the Theologization of Being; 2 "Craftsman" or "Creator"?; 3 The Unnamed, and yet Named "the Being One": the Premises of Ontotheology.
- 4 God as Esse AbsolutumOn the Anti-Ontological Doom Argument; Nothing Is Impossible; 1 Preliminary Matters; 1.1 A Miscellany of Terms, Concepts, Definitions, and Assumptions; 1.2 Kinds; 1.3 Explanation; 1.4 Three Principles; 1.5 A Premise about Kinds; 2 The Arguments; 2.1 The Arguments; 2.2 A Possible Objection to the Arguments; 3 "The Mystery of Existence"; God and Good: Does God's Existence Imply that Anything is Good; Part II Omniscience; Gaps, Gluts and God; 1 Gaps and Gluts; 2 Milne's Paradox; 3 Strengthening the Milne Sentence; 4 Conclusion.
- Fitch's Paradox and the Existence of an Omniscient Being1 The Knowability Principle and Fitch's Paradox; 2 An Argument for an Omniscient Being; 3 How Plausible is the Knowability Principle?; 4 Concluding Remarks; Vagueness and Omniscience; 1 Introduction; 2 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: First Proposal; 3 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: Objection to the First Proposal; 4 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: Second Proposal; 5 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: Objection to the Second Proposal; 6 Some Conclusive Remarks; God's Omniscience and Logical Virtue; 1 Introduction.
- 2 Cantor's Argument and the Complete Knowledge of God3 The Liar and the Sound Knowledge of God; 4 McTaggart's Paradox, and Various Semantical Approaches to Time; 5 Anderson-type Semantics Taking into Account the Time and the Knowledge of Truths; 6 Conclusion; Part III Truth; Logic and Truth in Religious Belief; 1 Introduction; 2 Logic and Religious Belief; 3 Faith Pragmatics and Truth; 4 Appearance and Truth in Religious Belief (Semantics); 4.1 Logic QB Modified; 4.2 Formal Analysis of John 3; Absolute Truth and Mathematics; The Divine Belief Theory of Truth: Might It Work?; 1 The Theory.
- 2 Statement and Some Merits2.1 Beliefs by a Perfect Beings; 2.2 Sentential Truth; 2.3 Some Merits; 3 Objections; 3.1 The Euthyphro Objection; 3.2 Knowledge; 3.3 Epistemological Circularity; 3.4 Atheists and Truth; 3.5 The Liar Paradox; 3.6 Similarity to Occasionalism; 4 Conclusions; Makers and Models: Two Approaches to Truth, and their Merger; 1 Introduction: Tarski and Nominalism; 2 Truth, Consequence, and Models; 3 Makers; 4 Models; 5 Multitudes; 6 Models from Multitudes; 7 Consequences for Nominalists; 8 Open Questions and Conclusion; Part IV Metaphysical Enigmas.