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Necessity
In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 285–291 (1997)
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necessity philosophical reflections on theism ‐ two controversial theses connecting concepts of God and necessity prospects being bleak for ‐ definition of necessary truth, that does not presuppose the concept under definition goal of Cartesian principle ‐ a conception of a God who can do or have done literally anything Augustine's doctrine and Leibniz's tendency ‐ theistic strategy, existence of abstract objects dependent on the divine mind Augustinian strategy ‐ truths, genuinely necessary depending on God's mental activity for their necessity Augustinian strategy ‐ accounting for the truth and falsity of contingent propositions
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