As an extension of a concept known as tawheed,* nothing lies outside of The Jurisdiction of Divine Intervention; nor is God the deist’s watchmaker, winding up reality and watching various Newtonian-like mechanized processes play themselves out. Once this latter deist notion is embraced, and given a particular subtle type of human propensity for self-exaltation (a type which is by definition not...

avicenna argued that the concept of god's attributes are identical, and mulla sadra stresses on the unity of attributes in concept and difference of them in real and rejected the perspective of the avicenna. this article is trying to begin with the two competing views can be explained by on the base of some of the topics in the semantic and then analyzed its foundation, and results. avicen...

This article discusses the concept of God with a focus on translation in Chinese and Yoruba religious contexts. Translating word is essence when comparing concepts god(s). The Christian as Olodumare misrepresents latter. As suggested by Africanists, there should be appropriate translations for God, Olodumare, other African gods. preliminary comparative attempt, this presents case introduction t...

“By properties which are asserted of a concept I naturally do not mean the characteristics which make up the concept. These latter are properties of the things which fall under the concept, not of the concept. Thus “rectangular” is not a property of the concept “rectangular triangle”; but the proposition that there exists no rectangular equilateral rectilinear triangle does state a property of ...

The standard view in epistemology is that propositional knowledge entails belief. Positive arguments are seldom given for this entailment thesis, however; instead, its truth is typically assumed. Against the entailment thesis, Myers-Schulz and Schwitzgebel (forthcoming) report that a non trivial percentage of people think that there can be propositional knowledge without belief. In this paper, ...

The co-immobilization of Aspergillus niger glucose oxidase (GOD) with bovine liver catalase (CAT) onto florisil (magnesium silicate-based porous carrier) was investigated to improve the catalytic efficiency of GOD against H2O2 inactivation. The effect of the amount of bound CAT on the GOD activity was also studied for 12 different initial combinations of GOD and CAT, using simultaneous and sequ...

The need to belong can motivate belief in God. In Study 1, 40 undergraduates read bogus astrophysics articles "proving" God's existence or not offering proof. Participants in the proof-for-God condition reported higher belief in God (compared to control) when they chronically imagined God as accepting but lower belief in God when they imagined God as rejecting. Additionally, in Study 2 (72 unde...

the concept of “infinite essence” that is both philosophically and theologically important, has passed many different evolutions in western history of thought. presocratics has evaluated it in two different ways. anaximender and melissus agree that the principle substance is infinite and divine, but neither absolutly transcendent nor anthropomorphic. the infinite is the fusis in its substantial...