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In Providence and Evil Peter Geach says: ‘What we cannot hope to understand in this life is sin. Sin is the surd or absurd element in the universe’ (1977, p. 63). Geach goes on to present a most interesting analogy between philosophical confusion and sin.
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Malcolm, N. (1991). Philosophical Confusion and Sin. In: Lewis, H.A. (eds) Peter Geach: Philosophical Encounters. Synthese Library, vol 213. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-7885-1_17
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