How does God know that 2 + 2 = 4?. Issue 2 (June 2021)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- How does God know that 2 + 2 = 4?. Issue 2 (June 2021)
- Main Title:
- How does God know that 2 + 2 = 4?
- Authors:
- BRENNER, ANDREW
- Abstract:
- Abstract: Sometimes theists wonder how God's beliefs track particular portions of reality, e.g. contingent states of affairs, or facts regarding future free actions. In this article I sketch a general model for how God's beliefs track reality. God's beliefs track reality in much the same way that propositions track reality, namely via grounding. Just as the truth values of true propositions are generally or always grounded in their truthmakers, so too God's true beliefs are grounded in the subject matters of those beliefs (i.e. God believes that p in virtue of the fact that p ). This is not idle speculation, since my proposal allows the theist to account for God's true beliefs regarding causally inert portions of reality.
- Is Part Of:
- Religious studies. Volume 57:Issue 2(2021)
- Journal:
- Religious studies
- Issue:
- Volume 57:Issue 2(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 57, Issue 2 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 57
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0057-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 301
- Page End:
- 316
- Publication Date:
- 2021-06
- Subjects:
- Religion -- Periodicals
Theology -- Periodicals
200 - Journal URLs:
- http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=RES ↗
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S0034412519000222 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0034-4125
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- Legaldeposit
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