God and Necessity

God and Necessity
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages : 588
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ISBN-10 : 9780199263356
ISBN-13 : 0199263353
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Download or read book God and Necessity written by Brian Leftow and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brian Leftow offers a theist theory of necessity and possibility, and a new sort of argument for God's existence. He argues that necessities of logic and mathematics are determined by God's nature, but that it is events in God's mind - His imagination and choice - that account for necessary truths about concrete creatures.


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