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Jun 02, 2006 23:33

"Plantinga concludes that merely by reflecting on a thing's individual essence, an omniscient being could infer precisely how things go for that individual in each of the possible worlds in which it exists; but since an omniscient being would know which possible world is the actual world, an omniscient being could, merely by reflecting on a thing's individual essence, infer all the properties that thing actually has."

Michael J. Loux - Metaphysics, a contemporary introduction
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Just to give you some sort of idea of what I'm dealing with down here...

school, metaphysics

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