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Single Idea 3874
[filed under theme 28. God / A. Divine Nature / 4. Divine Contradictions
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Full Idea
How could God be certain that he has free will (if He has), if He couldn't be sure that there wasn't an unknown force controlling his will?
Gist of Idea
How could God know there wasn't an unknown force controlling his 'free' will?
Source
PG (Db (ideas) [2031])
The
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Note that "is" can assert existence, or predication, or identity, or classification
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7415
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Question-begging assumes the proposition which is being challenged
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4686
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Fallacies are errors in reasoning, 'formal' if a clear rule is breached, and 'informal' if more general
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7414
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What is true of a set is also true of its members
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6696
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The Ad Hominem Fallacy criticises the speaker rather than the argument
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4687
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Minimal theories of truth avoid ontological commitment to such things as 'facts' or 'reality'
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6516
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Monty Hall Dilemma: do you abandon your preference after Monty eliminates one of the rivals?
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24054
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Everything has a probability, something will happen, and probabilities add up
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3875
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If reality is just what we perceive, we would have no need for a sixth sense
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3876
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If my team is losing 3-1, I have synthetic a priori knowledge that they need two goals for a draw
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7734
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Maybe a mollusc's brain events for pain ARE of the same type (broadly) as a human's
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7735
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Maybe a frog's brain events for fear are functionally like ours, but not phenomenally
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3877
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Utilitarianism seems to justify the discreet murder of unhappy people
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3874
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How could God know there wasn't an unknown force controlling his 'free' will?
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6126
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Life is Movement, Respiration, Sensation, Nutrition, Excretion, Reproduction, Growth (MRS NERG)
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3873
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An omniscient being couldn't know it was omniscient, as that requires information from beyond its scope of knowledge
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