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A Rave Concerning Good, Evil, and Freedom: Part the Seventh

Buying time It has been a while. The start of theschool year and unfinished work that simply had to get done tookprecedent. Strike that, others seem to manage; so chalk that up topoor time-management. I would a…
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. 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…
A Rave Concerning Quiddities and Haecceties, pt. 2

A problem with counterfactuals (there are others, but we shall leave them aside) is tied with the ancient problem of how some object can be the identical while undergoing some change or being different from how it in fac…
Rave on Election and Counterfactuals, pt. 3

If Arminianism holds that God’s election is based solely whether or not one accepts God’s offer of salvation, then it would seem that such a view of election is in trouble since God could have altered the conditions unde…
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…