Conceivability and perfect being theology
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Abstract According to Jeff Speaks, one sort of perfect being theology takes its rise from a description God as the greatest conceivable being. Speaks offers two problems for this project. One is finding suitable sense ‘conceivable’. The other concerns what he calls ‘troublemakers’, attributes that seem show cannot be brings these together in dilemma.
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عنوان ژورنال: Religious Studies
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1469-901X', '0034-4125']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/s0034412522000762