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Question about the Thomistic view of God's attributes
According to Thomism, God's essence must be identical with his attributes, lest God has real attributes he is dependent upon for his being and "compose" his essence, compromising God's ...
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Existence being analytic of God vs. God being analytic of existence
Elsewhere, in light of the idea that understanding is not a species of knowledge but an epistemic genus parallel to knowledge, and then in terms of an understanding logic, I asked whether knowledge of ...
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Grim Reaper Paradox Objections
I find the argument from first cause, contingency, and actualization to be emboldened by the very compelling thought experiment known as the Grim Reaper Paradox. For those unaware, Alexander Pruss and ...
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Principle of proportionate causality → the most eminent cause is intelligent?
In Five Proofs of the Existence of God, Edward Feser mentions the principle of proportionate causality:
whatever is in some effect must in some way or other be in the cause, even if not always in the ...
