RE: The Kalam Cosmological Argument
August 4, 2024 at 1:29 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2024 at 1:50 pm by BrianSoddingBoru4.)
(August 4, 2024 at 12:28 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Omnipotence, to plantinga, is the ability to do anything that is possible. Similarly, his definition of omniscience is knowing everything that can be known. Thus, in plantingas view, there are things that gods cant do or know.
It's not clear why being able to do any possible thing would make it impossible to know any thing that could be known, or vv.
Could an omnipotent being choose to forget a thing that could be possibly known? If It does, It is not omniscient. If It can’t, It is not omnipotent.
Even under Plantinga’s somewhat ad hoc definitions, this is problematic.
Boru
Edit: it occurs to me that if I am allowed to make up my own definitions, I could construct a ‘successful’ argument that chalk is cheese.
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