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i think the question involves a category error. Being is in indeterminate, not determinate. As what essences limit and so determine, existence is not ...

Yes, I did miss it. It did not appear in my email notifications. Thank you for your thoughtful reply. Let me say that, while I am Cristian, I don't th...

You are missing the point. Deductions are only sound if the premises are true and the logic valid. According to you, no mathematical proposition is tr...

I skipped a number of points as they did not address my argument in a substantive way, and so need no response. This is false. I explained, discursive...

Logic is as it is because, to be salve veritate (truth preserving), it has to reflect the nature of being. Being is not a constraint, because being on...

I eat sandwiches for God, and so do all the other sandwich eaters. We can only eat because we exist, and we only exist because we are divine activitie...

Creatio ex nihillo was in the past. One an ongoing basis God engages in creatio continuo -- mainting conteinfent beings in existence. God primarily ma...

No, we're not going to get stuck. I'm not saying that your concept of a brick is whole brick. It is a projection of the brick. (Think of a projection ...

I do not intend to provide detailed replies to each of your posts, which have become repetitive. Instead, I will simply read them to see if you've ans...

If a proof is sound, there is no shame in restating it. Do you have a substantive criticism, or is your only objection that my argument is not in vogu...

When you have rebutted my argument, you may claim this. Without pointing out a false premise or a logical misstep, this remains your unsupported belie...

Not quite. Infinite being can effect any possible act either directly, or by indirection. While God can't eat a ham sandwich Himself (as that would en...

Yes, but the idea of a particular brick requires that that brick modify your nervous system to create a representation you can be aware of. So, by act...

No, not just my thoughts, but those of a community of scholars who have been investigating the issue for 2500 years. But, even if they were mine alone...

Logic is a science which provides rules for mediated thought about reality. God does not have mediated thought, but knows all reality immediately in h...

Continuing... This shows a disqualifying lack of understanding of the scientific method. There is no case in physics, or in any other science, in whic...

Sentences are enumerable, but I don't think theories are as they may contain unspecified constants that are indenumerable. Also, it is unclear that th...

I am not claiming that the contradictions can inhere in things as accidents, i.e.,as what Aristotle calls secondary beings. I am claiming that they ca...

Yes, it can. An infinite being acting as only a finite being can is not a possible act. Why is it problematic? Truly eating requires a number of opera...

That is why I provided a proof. Do you have a citation for Aristotle? No, Aquinas did not make a faith claim. He provided a proof. Also, my use of "ex...

No, because that would entail the contraction of Its being limited, but It could create a finite being capable of doing so. Am I invited?

But, there is no objective reason for such a limitation. It is all very subjective. Whenever you do not like where a line of explanation is leading, y...

I am not claiming that the contradictions can inhere in things as accidents, i.e.,as what Aristotle calls secondary beings. I am claiming that they ca...

Give this a little thought. As I said, logic, as correct thought about existents, is based on the nature of existence. You are suggesting that existen...

Good physicist that I am, I've been studying entanglement for years and have found the flaw in Bell's proof. It is quite possible to have a local, rea...

Continuing ... Yes, some irrational minds hold such views. That does not establish them as facts, or even good physics. As I recall, Schrödinger propo...

I did not confine my definition to number theory, which does not include geometry and its subdisciplines, topology, analysis, calculus, distribution t...

I have no idea what you're talking about. I said precisely how God is self-explaining. Please read what I posted. First, you are begging the question ...

I avoided "cause" because I'm not writing in ancient Greece. Modern philsophy ignores essential causality and takes "causality" to mean Kant's "time s...

In my understanding, logic is consequent on the nature of being, and all being is traceable to God. So, logic is posterior, not prior, to God.

I responded as I did because I assumed that you were talking about a point I made about the actualization of potency. If your not talking about that, ...

I agree with your conclusion, but not your time-based reasoning. The problem with this is that if you allow one brute face, one exception to the need ...

It has been my experience that most contemporary philosophers have a hearsay acquaintance with Aristotle. I also know what you mean about time managem...

I almost agree. Which is to say that I agree with some of your formulations, but not with others. Clearly, being capable of any possible act does not ...

No, mathematics has quantitative relations as its subject matter, and metamathematics has mathematics as its subject matter. the fact that it may use ...

No, mathematics has quantitative relations as its subject matter, and metamathematics has mathematics as its subject matter. the fact that it may use ...

This is silly, As most people are unaware that what God is entails that God is, it is quite worthwhile explaining this fact. My actual claim is quite ...

I think you are confusing the two meanings (verbal and effective) of "explanation" I distinguished. the proof deals with what makes things so, not wit...

"Should"? Why? What is the force of this "should"? And, what is the error of my analysis? On what do you base this admitted belief? The way I see it, ...

I see "truth" not as an absolute, univocal term, but as analogously predicated. Following Isaac be Israel and Aquinas, I see truth as the approach to ...

Yes, I know that it is because of the placement of Aristotle's work on first philosophy after his work on nature; nonetheless, there was a reason for ...

I hope that you are not wasting my time, but have a sincere inability to make the distinction between what a thing is and that it is. If you can't see...

If you're saying that unlimited being has free will, I agree, but having free will does not preclude causal efficacy. Nor does the prior co-possibilit...

I have not said that God is unexplained, but self-explaining.

I'm talking about efficient causality or actualization, not final causality or purpose (we can discuss that later). Since you came to be, you need to ...

I think you're considering the wrong realm of discourse. As metamathematical proofs do not belong to mathematics, so metaphysical proofs do not belong...

I defined "infinite being" as being able to do any possible acts. If you want to see being unable to instantiate contradictions, be my guest. Such lab...

Thank you. Posting it is a means of eliciting criticism.

By "being" I mean what has the capacity to act in any way. Still, as I said to Terrapin Station, being aware is required to perform many possible acts...

Yes, religious texts use anthropomorphic language. I think that is natural, but I do not think that God is a person in the same way humans are, or tha...