I’m going to argue that omniscience is impossible and therefore that there is no God. The argument turns on the notion of grounding. After illustrating and clarifying that notion, I’ll start the argument in earnest. The first step will be to lay out five claims, one of which is the claim that there is an omniscient being, and the other four of which are claims about grounding. I’ll prove that t...

We restate the problem of judgment aggregation and approach it using the decisiontheoretic framework applied by I. Levi to modeling acts of rational acceptance in science. We propose a method of aggregation built on the concepts of epistemic and social utility of accepting a collective judgment, which accounts for such parameters as the factual truth of the propositions, reliability of agents, ...

There are a few things I do not understand about which I might keep asking silly questions for a life-time: first, what a no-truth theory of literature means; second, that God exists within some language games; third, that truth is the agreement of specialists on a given topic, that is of symposiasts 1 after a good dinner; fourth, I cannot understand, in the field of theory, the value of the no...

<p>Every literary work must have value in it. An in-depth analysis is required to capture and understand the value. This article analyze ethical philosophy matters short story “God Sees Truth, but Waits” by Leo Tolstoy (1828–1910)—a writer philosopher from Russia. departs a qualitative study using interpretation methods. finds that story’s philosophical message relates God’s plan for His ...

In the following reflections on the understanding of truth in regard to Christian faith (or even in regard to religious faith, experience, and language in general), I advocate a relational interpretation of truth. Truth in that sense is understood not primarily as an intellectual assertion but as a qualification of a dynamic, existential, personal relation. Truth is the trustworthiness of that ...

Among the topics that can play an important role in interreligious dialogue and the relationship between civilizations and cultures is the topic of human salvation. In this article, we argue that salvation and redemption are not exclusive to the followers of a particular religion; rather, the followers of various religions can gain salvation with some conditions, such as the belief in God and m...

1.1 A Comic Example I recently came across an evangelical comic strip discussing whether evolutionary theory is true. The strip consists of a dialogue between a righteous college student and his arrogant atheist college professor, and the student is on the verge of convincing his professor of the literal truth of the Book of Genesis when he switches tacks. “Protons have positive charge,” he poi...