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The Code-Theoretic Axiom: The Third Ontology [PDF]
Reports in Advances of Physical Sciences, 2019 A logical physical ontology is code theory, wherein reality is neither deterministic nor random. In light of Conway and Kochen’s free will theorem [The free will theorem, Found. Phys. 36(10) (2006) 1441–1473] and strong free will theorem [The strong free
Klee Irwin
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God, evil and the metaphysics of freedom
Filosofia Unisinos, 2021 This paper is a translation to Portuguese of the ninth chapter of Alvin Plantinga’s 1974 book The Nature of Necessity, in which the famous freewill defense for the problem of evil is presented in its most complete form.
André Nascimento Pontes +1 more
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Illusionism on Mind Problem [PDF]
Journal of Philosophical Investigations, 2023 Nowadays, theories of the philosophy of mind, are divided into illusionist and non-illusionist. In relation to the Mind Problem (MP), Illusionism of Soul (IS) considers soul and all of the unphysical-mental events (like immaterial personal identity, non ...
Siamak Abdollahi, Mansour Nasiri
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Spontaneous Decisions and Free Will: Empirical Results and Philosophical Considerations [PDF]
, 2014 Spontaneous actions are preceded by brain signals that may sometimes be detected hundreds of milliseconds in advance of a subject's conscious intention to act.
Mainen, Zachary +2 more
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How Did Evil Come into the World? A Primordial Free-Will Theodicy
Religions, 2023 James P. Sterba has provided a compelling argument to the effect that given the extent of significant, and indeed even horrendous, evil that an all-good and all-powerful being could have prevented, there is no God.
Mark Johnston
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E-Journal of Religious and Theological Studies, 2022 At a time when Christian preachers employ all forms of gimmicks to persuade people to give, examining Paul’s model of appeal in the collection for the saints, particularly 2 Corinthians 8:7–12, would prove helpful. Paul avows that he is not commanding
Jones Otisi Kalu , Ezichi A. Ituma
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International Journal of Research -GRANTHAALAYAH, 2020 The raison d’etre of human birth is liberation from bondage. Man appears to be practically a slave to the efforts of his past karma, but he is a free agent with regard to fresh and independent deeds. If these fresh and independent deeds resulting from his free will are in any manner directed to thwart the effects of his past karma, he seems to be ...
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What Are the Odds that Everyone is Depraved? [PDF]
, 2020 Why does God allow evil? One hypothesis is that God desires the existence and activity of free creatures but He was unable to create a world with such creatures and such activity without also allowing evil. If Molinism is true, what probability should be
Hill, Scott
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Stoics against stoics in Cudworth's "A Treatise of Freewill" [PDF]
, 2012 In his 'A Treatise of Freewill', Ralph Cudworth argues against Stoic determinism by drawing on what he takes to be other concepts found in Stoicism, notably the claim that some things are ‘up to us’ and that these things are the product of our choice ...
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A Study of Allah’s Will from the Perspective of Transcendent Theosophy and Detachment School of Thought [PDF]
حکمت اسرا, 2013 In Sadr Al-Mote’alehin’s school of thought, Allah’s will is his complete knowledge of the best system and it is one of the attributes of the essence.
Ali Arshad Riaahi, Zohreh Al-Sadat Nasr
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