Three Short Arguments Against Goff’s Grounding of Logical Laws in Universal Consciousness

Kriterion - Journal of Philosophy (3):237-246 (2021)
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In this paper, I argue that Goff's view that universal consciousness grounds logical laws such as the law of non-contradiction cannot be true on the grounds that we cannot guarantee the classical logic loving nature of universal consciousness that Goff desires in order to ground logical laws. I will present three arguments to show this.

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Andrew Thomas
Durham University

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