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Avoiding modal collapse
By: Dominik Date: December 2, 2019, 4:42 pm
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My idea is that Gods act of creation entails his knowledge of
contingent facts (e.g. my decision for X instead of Y) in the
sense that God, as an atemporal being knows through his act of
creation every contingent fact since every moment is within him.
This doesnīt prevent God from necessitating some things, e.g.
the appearance of life, but it saves libertarian free will and
divine foreknowledge.
I recognize that this doesnīt solve the problem of contrastive
explanations, but I think that it gives us an account of how God
eternally willing free creatures might look like. I hope at
least that it is a line of thought worth continuing to pursue
and that my notes arenīt useless. Any thoughts?
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Re: Avoiding modal collapse
By: Ouros Date: December 4, 2019, 1:09 pm
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How is life necessary? That seems absurd.
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Re: Avoiding modal collapse
By: Dominik Date: December 5, 2019, 5:32 pm
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I donīt take life itself to be necessary, but as an example of
something God might be impressed with, so that he creates. I
donīt think that it entails that life must have arisen on earth,
much less that the individual animals (like us two) must have
been there, though Iīm very much convinced, that one could
argue, that if God created a world, then life anywhere at some
point must have arisen.
An alternative could be to say that God wills freedom for his
creation or rather "creativity" (though it is hard to see what
that could be without conscious agents).My idea was that God
creates without determining, but that he knows through his act
of creating since every moment in within him. I know that it
doesnīt solve the problem as to how God knows a contingent fact
without changing, but if successfull, it avoids modal collapse.
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