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A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Fourteenth
Counterparts, Providence, and Recalcitrance Allow me to recap the last blog. Middle Knowledge faces an ontological difficulty; it cannot stand on its own but must be seen as a special case of either Natural or Free Kn… -
Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 6)
In the interest of full disclosure, I should mention that while I calling the below the Thomist and Scotist responses to the problem of subjective counterfactuals, it has been many years since I’ve actually read St. Thom… -
Rave Concerning Subjective Counterfactuals (pt. 2)
Last time placed a number of bullet points that seem relevant to the question of whether subjective counterfactuals make sense. The first point was, What in the actual world corresponds to a personal essence? Loosely s… -
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceities, pt. 9
It has been a month and the transporter-accident illustration is still bothering me. In fact, this entire rave is going places that I had not anticipated. Let recap and vary the illustration a bit. Lieutenant William … -
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceities, pt. 6
Alright, so lets approach things from a different angle. What this whole series of raves has assumed is that one is talking about one's self the “thing” referred to is “the whole ball of wax.” That is to say, that w… -
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceties, pt. 5
I have two main problems with what had a notion of identity that I had worked on in passing for a number of years. Ideas, even supremely bad ones, are powerful things not easily dismissed by those who have given them sa… -
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceties, pt. 4
Over ten years ago I was discussing a very similar topic (or perhaps the same topic from a different angle) on the Society of Christian Philosopher’s discussion list. My concern was the following, let us say that Charli… -
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceties, pt. 3
I have stated elsewhere that modal logic (or at least possible-world talk) serves more as a negative test to metaphysical ideas than as a demonstration of a given position. In the previous rave, I presented a very brief… -
Rave on Necessity and Existence (pt 1)
Before starting on this rave, I would like to briefly observe that if both the ontological arguments for and against God’s existence are valid we would have something of a Kantian Antinomy on our hands. Judging from on…
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