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Single Idea 6146

[catalogued under 18. Thought / C. Content / 7. Narrow Content]

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 Reference

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.