I think this displays a misunderstanding of "intention". Contingent means dependent on a preceding cause, but the will (intention) is understood to be...
Intrinsic to "ambiguity" is the fact that there is no correct interpretation. It is common in general, and especially here at TPF where we assert corr...
Circular motion is a very strange sort. Traction is often less than a hundred percent, so the motion of that point on the wheel, relative to the groun...
If you are asking if I know what God's intentions were, the answer is no I do not. Otherwise, the answer is in the way that I've already described, a ...
So this is your mode of interpretation? Every time the word "fight" is used it is metaphorical, and not meant to conjure up any notions of physical ag...
Determining that something is infinite (such as eternal time) solves no problem. It just means that the theory being applied toward understanding the ...
No, that's why I was clear to differentiate between two senses of "necessary". It was necessary in the sense of needed. For example, if I want to walk...
I agree that's an interesting subject. Also you might notice that the God of The Old Testament was always jealous and angry, displaying these human em...
Right, from our perspective it is "necessary" in the sense of 'what we have is what we got, and things are not otherwise'. From God's perspective, pri...
This is a very misleading statement. To say there is distance between two objects is completely different from saying that there is space between two ...
Yes I read that, and it is why I accused you of being ambiguous with "distance". In the first sentence you said there is a distance "even if we never ...
I don't see any evidence that God wanted anything other than what He created. We are agreeing that it is logically possible that God could have create...
Sorry, but there is no willful misunderstanding. What you said simply makes not sense. I ask you, how can you demonstrate that beginnings are not logi...
It is you who is being ambiguous, with your use of "distance". If the word is meant to signify that there is a separation between the base of the moun...
You'd have to be more specific in your question for me to give a reply, but off the cuff, I'd say that possible world semantics is inappropriate for d...
This is why, in metaphysics, it is important to understand that a thing must have actually been measured in order to have a measurement. As in the exa...
It's not possible that God created a different world, because the world that we have is the world that God created. However, at the time when God was ...
By what Walter stipulated, A and B are incompatible, so not only is it impossible that such is necessary, I would say that it is not even possible tha...
How would you know if 101 was actually spelled backward or not? How would we know if all those people like Banno who appear to be looking backward are...
I think we're back to the beginning, and you are just going around in a circle. God only makes one of the two choices, A or B. The choice was A. So we...
A ruler has markings, it might say "inch", or it may not. I don't see the relevance, an act of measurement was required to produce that marking. Remin...
I think you are misunderstanding what is meant by "God's Will". The will is the source of action, as the cause. So there is only a will to create A (c...
That's a mistaken idea. Measurements need to be made, and measurement is an act which requires time. The simple fact that any measurement requires tim...
The distance from the peak does not change without a change in location, and this requires time. What you can say, that the distance to the peak (heig...
And of course, there's the hypocritical anti-philosophy types who don't wish to be doing philosophy, and even claim not to be doing philosophy, while ...
I just cannot see how you could possibly come to this conclusion from what i said. There is a first material thing, it's called "the universe", and it...
You have not been saying that God is red or blue, you have been saying that God can choose to create A or B. The property we are talking about is a pr...
The type of mother in question here is explicitly the mother of a human being. So the infinite supply you suggest as a possibility, would imply that h...
The limit to a type is completely different from the cause of an individual. So what Russell shows is that switching from individuals to types is noth...
A fine example of not accurately being in the right place at the right time. Damn those gravitational waves. If that's what it takes to keep those gra...
That the cause is unknown to us does not imply that there is no cause. In general, this is the problem with free will, and intention, as "cause", we d...
So, how do you perceive this to be a problem? If God had created B instead of A, then there would be B instead of A. How is that a problem for divine ...
I don't understand your point. Let's say that at t1 God wills to create A, and at t2 God wills to create B. We could say that A and B are each a part ...
This does not produce the problem you mentioned. If God's intention is to create A, then A is created, and if God's intention is to create B, then B i...
I don't see how you can introduce possible worlds to the scenario. What God wills is necessary by His act of willing it, therefore it is actual. You c...
Sure, the speed of light is constant, but as is the case with all motion, the speed is always relative to a frame of reference. That's why your statem...
The issue I see with the "expansion of space", is that in order to conceive of numerous distinct locations from which everything is receding, it is ne...
The speed of light is relative. It is the same relative to any frame of reference. That's the principle which allowed Einstein to include the motion o...
According to Wikipedia, "proper speed" is the speed from the observer's frame of reference, which in your example, would be equivalent to "relative to...
That's what I'm talking about, a mind open to the possibility of solving the problems rather than denying that the problems exist. This image you prop...
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