Against God of the truth-value gaps

IF 16.4 1区化学 Q1 CHEMISTRY, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Accounts of Chemical Research Pub Date : 2024-04-25 DOI:10.1093/analys/anad090

T. Parent

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Abstract

Beall and Cotnoir propose that ‘God can create an unliftable stone’ is a truth-value gap (neither true nor false). However, this yields a revenge paradox on whether God can eschew gaps. Can God avoid gappy ascriptions of power? Either way, God’s power seems to have limits. In response, it may be said that ascribing God the power to avoid gaps is itself gappy – it concerns a power that God neither has nor lacks. Yet this ends up being inconsistent, for it implies that God definitely lacks that power. Following Aquinas, perhaps Beall and Cotnoir could accept this lack and still uphold omnipotence, suggesting that the power to avoid gaps is impossible for God. Yet the Aquinian stratagem is enough to block the original paradox, which saps the motivation to proffer truth-value gaps in addition. I conclude that the gappy solution is either inadequate or insufficiently motivated.

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反对真值差距之神

Beall 和 Cotnoir 提出，"上帝可以创造一块无法搬动的石头 "是一个真值空白（非真非假）。然而，这就产生了一个报复性悖论，即上帝能否避免差距。上帝能否避免对力量的空洞描述？无论如何，上帝的力量似乎都是有限的。对此，有人可能会说，赋予上帝回避差距的能力本身就是谬误--它涉及到上帝既不拥有也不缺乏的一种能力。然而，这最终是不一致的，因为它意味着上帝肯定缺乏这种能力。按照阿奎那的说法，也许比厄尔和科特努瓦可以接受这种缺乏，但仍然坚持全能，认为上帝不可能有避免间隙的能力。然而，阿奎那的策略足以阻挡原有的悖论，这就失去了另外提出真值空白的动力。我的结论是，"空白 "解决方案要么不充分，要么动机不足。

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Accounts of Chemical Research 化学-化学综合

CiteScore

31.40

自引率

1.10%

发文量

312

审稿时长

2 months

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