Scientia media und der Einwand der mangelnden Wahrheitsgrundlagen
The paper offers a new defense of Molinism against the grounding objection. This objection says that Molina's counterfactuals of freedom cannot be true, and hence cannot be known even by God, since they lack truthmakers. I argue that this verdict might be motivated either by truthmaker maximali...
| Subtitles: | Denken im Dialog mit der Geschichte: Gerhard Leibold zum 70. Geburtstag |
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | German |
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2015
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Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
Year: 2015, Volume: 137, Issue: 1, Pages: 3-22 |
| Parallel Edition: | Electronic
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| Summary: | The paper offers a new defense of Molinism against the grounding objection. This objection says that Molina's counterfactuals of freedom cannot be true, and hence cannot be known even by God, since they lack truthmakers. I argue that this verdict might be motivated either by truthmaker maximalism or by a selective theory of truthmakers which postulates the latter's existence only for certain types of proposition. On closer inspection both options turn out not to be viable for anti-Molinists. Finally, I argue that in ordinary discourse we often make assertions using counterfactuals of freedom, assuming that their contents are true. The critic thus owes us an error theory explaining why we engage in such speech acts, even though what we say is never true. The prospects for such a theory, I argue, are bleak. |
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| ISSN: | 0044-2895 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Zeitschrift für katholische Theologie
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