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Future Contingents and the Logic of Temporal Omniscience* [PDF]

open access: yesNoûs, 2019
Perhaps one of the chief objections to open future views is that they must deny a principle we may call “Retro-closure”: roughly, if something is the case, then it was the case that it would be the case. Certain theorists, however—supervaluationists and relativists—have attempted to maintain both the open future view, and Retro-closure. In this chapter,
Todd, Patrick, Rabern, Brian
openaire   +3 more sources

Peter Lombard on God’s Knowledge and Its Capacities: Sententiae, Book I, Distinctions 38-39

open access: yesSententiae, 2018
The global Peter Lombard research reinaugurated in 1990s has resulted in a number of recent publications, but the Master of the Sentences’ theology proper is partially underreseached. In particular, a more detailed exposition of the distinctions 35-41 of
Rostislav Tkachenko
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Awareness, negation and Logical omniscience [PDF]

open access: yes, 1991
General Epistemic Logics suffer from the problem of logical omniscience, which is that an agent's knowledge and beliefs are closed under implication. There have been many attempts to solve the problem of logical omniscience. However, according to our intuition, sometimes an agent's knowledge and beliefs are indeed closed under implication. Based on the
Zhisheng Huang, Karen L. Kwast
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Noos and Mortal Enquiry in the Poetry of Xenophanes and Parmenides

open access: yesMethodos, 2016
Noos, noein and their derivatives are of central importance to the development of epistemological conceptions in Presocratic philosophy. Already in Homer the terms indicate a special form of cognition, resembling sense perception in its non-inferential ...
Nicolò Benzi
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Logical Omniscience as a Conditionality Issue. A Multi-Modal Approach

open access: yesCrítica
Many solutions to the problem of Logical Omniscience assume that this arises from the behavior of the epistemic operators. However, few proposals have criticized the assumption that material implication accurately accounts for conditionality. This paper
Juan Carlos Sánchez Hernández
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A Comparative Study of Mulla Sadra and Plantinga’s Views on the Issue of Evil [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology
In the tradition of Islamic philosophy, Mulla Sadra, one of the mystical philosophers, and in Western philosophical thought, Alvin Plantinga, a theistic philosopher, have both explored the issue of evil with distinct foundations and solutions.
Masoumeh Ameri, Farida Rezaei
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The Paradox of Omniscience (Sarvajñāna): From Divine Omniscience to the Mystical Self-Awareness in Indian Philosophy

open access: yesReligions
While Western theology typically locates omniscience in a personal Creator-God, Indian philosophy presents a notable spectrum. This article traces the dialectical arc of omniscience (sarvajñāna) across major Indian philosophical traditions, arguing that ...
Youngsun Yang
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Omniscience and Semantic Information

open access: yesManuscrito
First, I consider a few motivations to idealize epistemic logics1 in such a degree that brings up the problem of logical omniscience [LOP]. I argue that the main motivation to hold omniscience is of a philosophical-scientific2 background (Stalnaker 1991),
Bernardo Alonso
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Mulla Sadra on the Problem of Evil [PDF]

open access: yesحکمت صدرایی, 2015
In this article, Mulla Sadra’s account of the problem of evil is considered. He is one of the philosophers who attempt to provide logical solutions for the problems which stem from divine attributes (omniscience, omnipotence and goodness) by appeal to ...
معصومه عامری   +1 more
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Exploring How Affordances of Play Materials Shape Chinese Parents' Interaction With Children: Media‐Elicited Focus Group Discussion

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Existing literature on children's play materials predominantly reflects theoretical frameworks and empirical data generated in the Global North, where ideas of “developmental appropriateness” often overlook the socio‐cultural specificity of materials' affordances and parental expectations.
Zhiyu Zhang, Jingyun Zhang
wiley   +1 more source

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