Comments on: The Compatibility of Human Freedom and Omniscience http://jwwartick.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/ Sat, 19 May 2012 01:38:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Molinism and Necessity « http://jwwartick.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-348 Sat, 14 Nov 2009 23:32:19 +0000 http://jwwartick.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-348 [...] Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom is a topic I have written on in the past. Initially, I wrote a post that was derived almost entirely from William Lane Craig’s The Only Wise God. Shortly [...]

]]> By: J.W. Wartick http://jwwartick.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-35 Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:56:02 +0000 http://jwwartick.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-35 It’s an issue of determinism. Is our action defined as necessary or is it free?

]]> By: The Roomie http://jwwartick.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-30 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:37:06 +0000 http://jwwartick.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-30 I still don’t understand. What is the issue with the word “necessarily”?

]]> By: J.W. Wartick http://jwwartick.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-29 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 15:05:37 +0000 http://jwwartick.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-29 Ah, I got in this discussion at another venue, and I had to explain it further:

That syllogism is set up such that:
1. Necessarily, if A, then B
2. A
3. Therefore, necessarily B.

However, that is not what follows. The syllogism only should say

1. Necessarily, if A, then B.
2. A
3. Then B

Or in the case of the Bachelor,

1. Necessarily, if I am a bachelor, than I am unmarried.
2. I am a bachelor.
3. Therefore, I am unmarried.

That is what follows from the premises.

]]> By: The Roomie http://jwwartick.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-28 Sat, 01 Aug 2009 14:47:21 +0000 http://jwwartick.wordpress.com/2009/07/17/the-compatibility-of-human-freedom-and-omniscience/#comment-28 I don’t understand how the second syllogism is a logical fallacy. I don’t think it implies that you will always be a bachelor, but that as long as you are a bachelor, you will be unmarried, and vice versa. Once you do marry, you will necessarily not be a bachelor.

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