Logic Matters 2008-03-28

Philosophy of Religion #2

The second chapter of the Murray/Rea is on "Attributes of God: eternity, knowledge and providence". It has to be said, again, that the discussion seems to be pretty remote from engaging with the religious meaning of talk of seeking eternal life or of not being able to hide from God's knowledge, and so forth. But we'll just have to let this pass. Taking the investigations into philosophical theology on their own terms, how do they fare?Here's an example -- a small one, but not entirely untypical perhaps. The context is talking about omniscience:There are set-theoretic reasons for thinking that it makes no sense to talk about "every proposition". For example, one might think that it makes sense to talk about every proposition only if there is a set of all propositions; but there are good reasons for thinking that there ...

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