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Why Can’t God Know Something But Not Everything?
The paper is concerned with John Martin Fischer’s Bootstrapping View of God’s foreknowledge, which is intended to reconcile God’s foreknowledge with genuine contingency of the future. We argue that this view has two major faults. Firstly, its main theses
Anna Maria Karczewska +1 more
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Aristotelian Roots of Contemporary Tense Logic
Tense logic is a branch of contemporary logic which includes formal devices that allow us to deal with the temporal relations between propositions. The aim of our paper is threefold: 1) to reveal how Aristotelian philosophical ideas about time, truth ...
Živilė PABIJUTAITĖ +1 more
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This article compares Ammonius’ and Aquinas’ answers to the conflict between divine determinate knowledge of the world and the contingency of future events.
Thomas Rego
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Relevance Hepatitis B and tuberculosis are a serious global health problem. Babies under one are at high risk of a severe form of these diseases and mortality. Immunization of newborns plays a key role both in the individual prevention of hepatitis B and
I. V. Feldblium +2 more
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Depopulacija i starenje u Istočnoj Hrvatskoj
The subject of this study is the total population trends and contemporary changes in the biological structure of the population of Eastern Croatia. The purpose of the study is, based on the results of the last two censuses (2001 and 2011), the analysis ...
Dražen Živić
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Resumen En este artículo se exponen y analizan los argumentos esgrimidos por Suárez para sostener la existencia de la ciencia divina de los futuros condicionados libres y sus fundamentos metafísicos, tal como están expuestos en los tratados De scientia
Agustín Echavarría
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The Problem of Index-Initialisation in the Tempo-Modal Semantics
DOI: http://doi.org/10.26333/stsen.xxx.02 In Kripke-semantics for modal logic, the truth value of a sentence depends on the choice of a semantic index (e.g. world, time, or place).
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This article deals with Ockham’s analysis of the problem, explained by Aristotle in the ninth chapter of De Interpretatione, of determining the truth of contingent propositions about the future, as well as its relationship to what Ockham himself proposes,
Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira
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Future Contingents and Relative Truth [PDF]
If it is not now determined whether there will be a sea battle tomorrow, can an assertion that there will be one be true? The problem has persisted because there are compelling arguments on both sides. If there are objectively possible futures which would make the prediction true and others which would make it false, symmetry considerations seem to ...
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Fragmented Future Contingents and Omniscience
In this paper, we have analyzed a number of solutions to the antinomy between divine foreknowledge and human freedom. If we assume that God is temporal, then a sort of backwards causation of past divine beliefs by future human acts must be acknowledged. Since this solution runs into difficulties, we consider the prospects of the view according to which
Ciro De Florio, Aldo Frigerio
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