Omniscience, Weak PSR, and Method

Philo 6 (1):33-48 (2003)
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Abstract

Adhering to the traditional concept of omniscience lands Gale in the incoherence Grim’s Cantorian arguments reveal in talk of “all propositions.” By constructing variants and extensions of Grim’s arguments, I explain why various ways out of the incoherence are unacceptable, why theists would do better to adopt a certain revisionary concept of omniscience, and why the Cantorian troubles are so deep as to be troubles as well for Gale’s Weak PSR. I conclude with some brief reflections on method, suggesting that we pursue the full implications of Gale’s own revisionary remarks and replace his method of analytic argumentation with non-analytic revisionary theory-construction.

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Alexander R. Pruss
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Grim’s arguments against omniscience and indefinite extensibility.Laureano Luna - 2012 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 72 (2):89-101.

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