I do not know what you mean by 'do a contradiction'. Certainly minds can think contradictory thoughts - they do so all the time and then express them ...
That's fallacious and it is not essential to idealism. As I explained, Berkeley - the ablest defender of the view - made no appeal to such arguments. ...
God is morally good by definition. A morally good person is not a dictator. Therefore, God is not a dictator. That is, God does not make people do as ...
I don't see any connection. Also, that's a mischaracterization of idealism. The idealist does not think that only the conceivable exists, for minds th...
So, the reason why creating yourself would make you free is that then nothing external to you would be responsible for you being the you that you are?...
Don't evade the question. The finest chef in the world does not cook drunk - they wouldn't be the finest if they did. Look, this is pointless, you're ...
So, to be clear, if you order toast and receive a cold, urine soaked piece of mouldy bread, it is reasonable - as far as you are concerned - to conclu...
Again, just another squawk and not an argument. You seem incapable of arguing for anything. Why the hell would any of that follow? You exist. God exis...
If you order toast in a restaurant and you receive a cold, urine soaked piece of mouldy bread, is it reasonable to conclude that the chef is the best ...
no they didn't. Like I say, you are not really following this. Let me explain. God not create anything. See? God exist. God not create anything. God e...
By a 'perfect being' do you mean a person who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent? If so, could that being exist without having created anyth...
What would you call a person who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent? God, yes? So it is no part of the definition of God that he is immateri...
Well, it's an odd way to put it as it suggests the most modest proposal would be one cause, whereas that's actually quite immodest and it would be mor...
God, on normal usage, is an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent person. Not 'all loving'. Being all loving would seem incompatible with being omnib...
Clearly not all things can have a prior cause as that would mean having to posit an actual infinity of prior causes. So we can conclude that there mus...
How does that follow? I am sure - as sure as you are or the next person - that there are no true contradictions. I think that's contingently true, but...
Chirp chirp. I'm Eugene and I don't understand what I am saying or what anyone says in response, but I am not going to let that stop me saying it. Loo...
This is kindergarten simple. He can do anything. That means he can do anything. That means he can destroy the universe. Doesn't mean he wants to. Does...
No I didn't. Describing a thought is not the same as showing you it. I am aware of my thoughts in a way that you are not - I have an introspective awa...
He's omnipotent, so he can do anything, including demonstrating to us that he is omnipotent. Omnibenevolence does not 'forbid' anything. Christ, you r...
You think if someone can't show you something, then they can't have it? I can't show you my thoughts. I am thinking. Plus God could show us his omnipo...
First, to exist with aseity is not to exist of necessity. It is to exist uncaused. That is, it is to exist, yet not to have been created. If a person ...
No, the world 'monster' is clearly being used in a morally loaded way. That is, it is being used to express the idea that God is immoral. But that's a...
Not to me it isn't. You said you'd be unable to walk if you were omnipotent. That's false. An omnipotent being is able to walk. You can walk, yes? It ...
Yes. Those who try and create puzzles here are working with the wrong picture - a picture in which the laws of logic are above God and operate as a co...
No, our reason tells us that no true proposition is also false. That's good evidence that no true proposition is also false. (Note, I do not believe a...
No, you said that if you were omnipotent " See? You did not say "I could walk in infinite ways". You said "I wouldn't even be able to walk". Like I sa...
To say that there is a possible world in which she does x is just a rather exotic way of saying that it is possible for her to do it. It's possible fo...
Yes you did. You said that if you were omnipotent, you "wouldn't even be able to walk". Again! No. It. Doesn't. It wouldn't be omnipotence if it did. ...
You don't seem to have grasped the concept of omnipotence. If a person can do anything, then there is nothing they can't do. So to assert that if you ...
An omnipotent being can do all these things: 1. Cease being omnipotent 2. Cease being omnipotent but retain the ability to become omnipotent again in ...
Because an omnipotent being can do anything, he can simultaneously create a rock and divest himself of power such that the rock he creates is one he c...
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