Student: Explain this: why do we speak of the truth of this or that particular thing as if we were distinguishing different truths, when in fact there aren't different truths for different things? Many people will hardly grant that there is no difference between the truth of the will and what is called the truth of action, or of one of the others.
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12 April 2011
10 April 2011
McTaggart Joke
I just ran a Google search for ‘C-series’ on a whim, wondering how many pages would turn up before one concerning McTaggart's famous paper. The third result (which links to a page on a series of planes) had an amusing title: ‘CSeries - Now is the future.’
16 March 2011
Aquinas on the A- and B-Series
Summa Theologica I:14:15,
Whether the knowledge of God is variable?
Objection 3. Further, God knew that Christ would be born. But He does not know now that Christ will be born; because Christ is not to be born in the future. Therefore God does not know everything He once knew; and thus the knowledge of God is variable.…
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