Not a day went by after the last rave when I discovered two things. First, that I had overstated my objection regarding haecceities not being instantiated primitive essences. Let us say that what might be roughly calle…

Way back when, I had made a rough thumbnail sketch of what might have been the position of a Thomist or a Scotist regarding the question of subjective counterfactuals and whether we actualize our own essences. I had als…

This rave in some ways is an outgrowth of the previous meander on quiddities and haecceities. In other ways, this current rave was the excuse to have quiddities and haecceities discussed in the first place. Moreover, t…

So far, the strongly Arminian option has been critiqued because its outcome is the theory of transworld damnation. The Molinist modification doesn’t seem to fair any better because its offer of providing a grounds for G…

Last time I concluded that the Arminian has two options regarding counterfactuals (a) that there are no states of affairs that God can actualize where those who are in fact damned in the actual world would accept grace a…