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Temporal logic, omniscience, human freedom
Boniface Enyeribe Nwigwe
Published
1991
by P. Lang in Frankfurt am Main, New York
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Written in
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 145-160).
| Statement | Boniface Enyeribe Nwigwe. |
| Series | European university studies. Series XX, Philosophy,, vol. 319 =, Europäische Hochschulschriften. Reihe XX, Philosophie ;, Bd. 319, Europäische Hochschulschriften., Bd. 319. |
| Classifications | |
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| LC Classifications | BT131 .N85 1991 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 160 p. : |
| Number of Pages | 160 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL1546257M |
| ISBN 10 | 3631430086 |
| LC Control Number | 91025516 |
Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The Coherence of Theism - Omniscience multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. The present work serves both as a useful survey of the extensive literature on theological 5/5(1). Reading: Pike, “Divine Omniscience and Voluntary Action”, pp. This is an excerpt from a longer article that appeared in Philosophical Review in In the longer article, Pike considers a couple of attempts to render traditional assumptions about omniscience compatible with human freedom.
Divine Omniscience and Human Freedom: Thomas Aquinas and Charles 0 Reviews. From inside the book. What people are saying - Write a review. We haven't found any reviews in the usual places. Press principle prior problem question quod reason reconciling relation relationship Relativity reply require seems sense suggests temporal theory. Details. Statements in temporal logic are of the form [], where A is an action and t contains a subset of the variables appearing in action is an expression containing primed and non-primed variables, such as + ′ ∗ = ′.The meaning of the non-primed variables is the variable's value in this meaning of primed variables is the variable's value in the next state.
Temporal Logic book. Read reviews from world’s largest community for readers. Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence deals with th /5(3). Download On Divine Foreknowledge ebook PDF or Read Online books in PDF, EPUB, backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem, middle knowledge, and relativity theory. the mechanics whereby this foreknowledge is achieved might so threaten human freedom. In the second part of the.
Get this from Temporal logic library. Temporal logic, omniscience, human freedom: perspectives in analytic philosophy. [Boniface Enyeribe Nwigwe]. This book takes an in depth look into the topic of divine foreknowledge and human freedom.
It can be very technical in certain places, but to those who have a mind for deep inquiry it is great. He first discusses certain approaches to handling the problem of fatalism, as well as the problems that they by: in "The Grace of God, the Will of Man" () The book surveys and critically assesses the contemporary debate over the possibility of divine foreknowledge of future human free acts, drawing upon related discussions of a wide variety of topics such as logical fatalism, multivalent logic, backward causation, precognition, time travel, relativity.
Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom: The Coherence of Theism: Omniscience The ancient problem of fatalism, more particularly theological fatalism, has resurfaced with surprising vigor in the second half of the twentieth century.
Author by: Paul Weingartner Languange: en Publisher by: Walter de Gruyter Format Available: PDF, ePub, Mobi Total Read: 76 Total Download: File Size: 40,8 Mb Description: The aim of the book is to clarify the concept of is done first by discussing basic questions on omniscience (chs) and secondly by offering a theory of omniscience as an.
With a focus on three intertwined concepts - God’s nature, the Temporal logic structure of time, and the metaphysics time, including the relationship between temporal entities and a timeless God omniscience the chapters analyse various solutions to the problem of foreknowledge and freedom, revealing the advantages and drawbacks of each.
The book deals with an old conundrum - if God knows what we will choose tomorrow, how could we be free to choose otherwise. - by revealing and by critically discussing the underlying metaphysics of time and by providing a framework of temporal logic. The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge Book Summary: This original analysis examines the three leading traditional solutions to the dilemma of divine foreknowledge and human free will--those arising from Boethius, from Ockham, and from Molina.
Though all three solutions are rejected in their best-known forms, three new solutions are proposed, and Zagzebski. This book deals with an old conundrum: if God knows what we will choose tomorrow, how can we be free to choose otherwise.
If all our choices are already written, is our freedom simply an illusion. This book provides a precise analysis of this dilemma using the tools of modern metaphysics and logic of time. Two questions predominate in the debate: (1) Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts.
Having surveyed the historical background of this debate in The Problem of Divine Foreknowledge and Future Contingents from Aristotle to Suarez (Brill: ), William Lane Craig now attempts to Cited by: Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom The Coherence of Theism: Omniscience.
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, Is divine foreknowledge compatible with human freedom and (2) How can God foreknow future free acts. backward causation, precognition, time travel, counterfactual logic, temporal necessity, Newcomb's Problem Cited by: Temporal Logic. Temporal Logic pp | Cite as.
Human freedom and divine foreknowledge. Chapter. Downloads; Part of the Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy book series (SLAP, volume 57) These are the dogmas of human freedom and God’s omniscience, respectively.
God’s omniscience is assumed to also comprise knowledge of the. Temporal Logic and State Systems (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series) [Kröger, Fred, Merz, Stephan] on *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Temporal Logic and State Systems (Texts in Theoretical Computer Science.
An EATCS Series)Brand: Springer. The term Temporal Logic has been broadly used to cover all approaches to reasoning about time and temporal information, as well as their formal representation, within a logical framework, and also more narrowly to refer specifically to the modal-logic type of approach introduced around by Arthur Prior under the name Tense Logic and subsequently developed further by.
A friend and I recently discussed the impact of divine omniscience as it pertains to human freedom. Omniscience is the term used to describe the complete knowledge of God. The critical question of God’s omniscience in theological circles is whether divine omniscience hinders a person’s choice to choose x or y.
Human Freedom vs. God's Omniscience 1. Human Freedom and God’s Omniscience Are Incompatible with Each Another: An Examination Utilizing Theories of Time Paul Carrion 2. 1 Human freedom and God’s property of omniscience are. Divine foreknowledge and human freedom: the coherence of theism: omniscience.
[William Lane Craig] --"Within one's power" --Backward causation --"Within one's power" once more --Transition to theological fatalism --Temporal necessity --Newcomb's paradox --Foreknowledge and freedom of God --The basis of divine foreknowledge --Middle knowledge.
Temporal Logic • A logic for specifying properties over time – E.g., Behavior of a finite-state system • Basic: propositional temporal logic – Other temporal logics are also useful: • e.g., real-time temporal logic, metric temporal logic, signal temporal logic, File Size: 47KB. This paper introduces TLA, which I now believe is the best general formalism for describing and reasoning about concurrent systems.
The new idea in TLA is that one can use actions–formulas with primed and unprimed variables–in temporal formulas. An action describes a state-transition relation. For example, the action x’=x+1 means approximately the same thing as [ ]Cited by: One problem facing those who attempt to reconcile divine foreknowledge with human freedom is to explain how a temporal God can have knowledge of the future, if the future does not exist.
In her recent book, The Dilemma of Freedom and Foreknowledge, Linda Zagzebski attempts to provide an explanation by making use of a fourdimensional model in. In logic, temporal logic is any system of rules and symbolism for representing, and reasoning about, propositions qualified in terms of time (for example, "I am always hungry", "I will eventually be hungry", or "I will be hungry until I eat something").
It is sometimes also used to refer to tense logic, a modal logic-based system of temporal logic introduced by Arthur Prior in the late s.With a focus on three intertwined concepts - God’s nature, the formal structure of time, and the metaphysics time, including the relationship between temporal entities and a timeless God - the chapters analyse various solutions to the problem of foreknowledge and freedom, revealing the advantages and drawbacks of : Aldo Frigerio, Ciro De Florio.You can write a book review and share your experiences.
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