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God of the Gaps : a neglected reply to God’s stone problem

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01/10/2017
Author
Beall, Jeffrey C
Cotnoir, Aaron
Keywords
Theism
Omnipotence
Omniscience
Paradoxgaps
Paracomplete
Subclassical
Logic
BC Logic
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Abstract
Traditional monotheism has long faced logical puzzles (omniscience, omnipotence, and more). We argue that such puzzles rest on the assumed logical truth of the Law of Excluded Middle, which we suggest there is little theological reason to accept. By way of illustration we focus on God's alleged stone problem, and present a simple but plausible ‘gappy’ framework for addressing this puzzle. We assume familiarity with the proposed (subclassical) logic but an appendix is offered as a brief review.
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Beall , J C & Cotnoir , A 2017 , ' God of the Gaps : a neglected reply to God’s stone problem ' , Analysis , vol. 77 , no. 4 , pp. 681–689 . https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anx069
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Analysis
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Peer reviewed
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https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anx069
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0003-2638
Type
Journal article
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© 2017 the Authors. This work has been made available online in accordance with the publisher’s policies. This is the author created accepted version manuscript following peer review and as such may differ slightly from the final published version. The final published version of this work is available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/00048402.2017.1384846
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http://hdl.handle.net/10023/18865

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