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Full Idea
The belief of theists that God might never have created implies that there is a possible world that contains just a single entity with many conscious mental properties.
Gist of Idea
Before Creation it is assumed that God still had many many mental properties
Source
Trenton Merricks (Objects and Persons [2003], §4.II)
Book Ref
Merricks,Trenton: 'Objects and Persons' [OUP 2003], p.93
A Reaction
So if we believe content is wide, we must believe that God was incapable of thought before creation, and thus couldn't plan creation, and so didn't create, and so the Creator is a logical impossibility. Cool.
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| 3419 | Pain, our own existence, and negative existentials, are not external [Kim] |
| 3114 | Concepts aren't linked to stuff; they are what is caused by stuff [Fodor] |
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| 6146 | Before Creation it is assumed that God still had many many mental properties [Merricks] |
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