What? Focus. He - Descartes - believed God could do anything. He didn't think we could comprehend that, but he thought it was true nonetheless. No rul...
You've read the fifth and sixth replies and his letter to Mersenne from 1630? And you still think I am wrong? Odd. He expresses precisely my view. But...
God with a capital G denotes a person who is omnipotent, omniscient and omnibenevolent. So his/her question is about whether free will is something a ...
There's no mystery. Discussing philosophical ideas with the confident but ignorant can be very fruitful. It's what Socrates did. Mark Twain said not t...
I don't give uncharitable interpretations of other people's arguments. Indeed, rarely does anyone here give any arguments. But whatever floats your bo...
Is the meaning of the word Jeffery 'someone who has red hair' or is it just the name of someone who happens to have red hair but would still be Jeffer...
'Could' doesn't mean 'has'. 'Always' doesn't mean 'necessarily' and so on. Like I say, you do not understand Descartes. In the meditations he is talki...
Does. See previous post - she's the arbiter of truth. So, for instance, it is true that you can't follow an argument. She could make that false. She h...
And what a tedious and ungrateful response from you. I always find that those who enjoy talking about how nice they are - as you did in that previous ...
Oh, okay. Good point. Well argued. Silly me. Truth is constitutively determined by Reason. So Reason determines what's true. Thus Reason would be able...
Unfortunately there is not an online version. Professor Sheet was very eccentric and insisted on hand writing each copy - they're written on rolls of ...
Do you need help? Does it, perhaps, mean 'possibly false'? Such that a contingent truth is a truth that is possibly true and possibly false? And doesn...
Yes, google, the great authority on all things academic. Explain the difference between a proposition that is contingently true, and a proposition tha...
Well, this is now off topic. But I have presented the argument before and received the standard replies (that is, say, it has the fault of having prem...
Why did you throw that in? God does exist. Indeed, it is by reflecting on the fact God exists that one can come to the conclusion that there are no ne...
It is commonplace - at least among those who talk of possible worlds - to think that if a proposition is true in all possible worlds, then it is a nec...
Question begging. Nothing is impossible. Anyway, call them what you like - I have no idea what a possible world is anyway - my point is that it is not...
Top marks for total inconsistency. If Bartricks says it, it's false. But elsewhere, Banno may say it and there it is true. Are you being thick, or do ...
Two reasons. First, God is omnipotent and so does not 'have' to exist. Ontological arguments of that kind appeal to necessity, and thus seek to show t...
What's a possible world? May I talk with the same right about toity worlds? Have you read Toity Worlds by Professor Boule Sheet? There's a toity world...
What are the odds of you dying from covid if you are vaccinated? (They're miniscule) The reason for the lockdowns is nothing to do with protecting the...
But that does not show it. That is just you asserting it. Look, this argument is not valid: 1. If a proposition is true, then it is contingently true ...
But as I already said, I do not see why this: follows from this: You are just saying again the very thing I want explained, yes? I deny that there are...
What? My view is that every actual contradiction is false. Is that inconvenient to you? Dummo logic says that there are necessarily no centaurs if the...
No, how does it follow from every actual proposition not being necessary that that proposition is necessarily true? Dummo. Show it. Show it without as...
You don't understand Descartes. Why do you think virtually all philosophers take Descartes to be one of the main representatives of the view that God ...
Yes, I think a lot of them do, or at least allow them to govern what decision they make on important occassions. Yet they make one less wise, not more...
So your whole case against me is not that my view can be shown to generate a contradiction, but simply that it is false. All you are doing, again and ...
Reason and God denote the same person - namely, a person who is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent. But that does not mean that the words mean...
An omnipotent being is free to do anything, including cease to exist or ceasing to be omnipotent. Obviously. There's no problem in this. Having the ab...
So you accept, do you, that if it is possible for a contradiction to be true, then it does not follow that it is? And so you accept, do you, that it i...
Focus. Whether there are any isn't the issue. The point is it is entirely possible for there to be none. Dummo thinks that if it is possible for there...
What? There aren't any true contradictions. I keep saying that. Yet now you ask me to show you one. Your name is clearly spot on. There are no centaur...
I don't know what you are talking about. I think God can create true contradictions. That is, he has the power to confer truth on any proposition what...
It's a given that there are no true contradictions. Note, that is something I believe, as surely as anyone else. McTaggart thinks that our concept of ...
Why are you up -thumbing that? Is it going somewhere the sun doesn't shine? The guy hasn't a clue. He thinks that if it is possible (metaphysically, n...
It's simply unwise not to get vaccinated, at least once it becomes almost inevitable that you will be exposed to the virus. Not doing so threatens the...
There is no contradiction. We have sensations of time. They are 'of' time, but do not constitute it. Hence why we can have false impressions - somethi...
You have the burden of proof, remember? So you need to show how it could be that God and time could exist without the former being subject to the latt...
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