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I am taking a metafysics class1 and last lectur’s topic was time travel. That is an issu i sort of like but i dislike the way people discuss it, in general. Ther is a widespred lack of clarity and lack of training in the relevant logics (that is, modal logics: alethic logic and temporal logic)….
Continue Reading“World A: Contains nothing but a single being. World B: Contains nothing but a single being, that is a different being than the one in World A. Do you have any objection to either of these worlds? Each seems entirely possible. Unless you can come up with some sort of objection to THEM, we’ve got…
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Continue ReadingIntro and types I’ve been paying very close attention as of late to a special type of discourse: Namely, about what is possible and what is impossible. This study has led me to be very careful about my language use when speaking of such things because there are multiple types of possibilities: Logical, epistemic, physical,…
Continue ReadingAbstract I have recently discussed whether omnipotence and omniscience are incompatible i.e. a being cannot have both properties at the same time. Much of the discussion was centered around an argument I invented some time ago. But before we look at the argument, we need to clarify what it meant by the concepts used. The…
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