By William Lane Craig
God Over All: Divine Aseity and the problem of Platonism is a safety of God's aseity and distinctive prestige because the writer of all issues except Himself within the face of the problem posed by means of mathematical Platonism. After offering the biblical, theological, and philosophical foundation for the conventional doctrine of divine aseity, William Lane Craig explains the problem awarded to that doctrine by way of the Indispensability Argument for Platonism, which postulates the life of uncreated summary gadgets. Craig offers certain exam of a variety of responses to that argument, either realist and anti-realist, with a view towards assessing the main promising concepts for the theist. A synoptic paintings in analytic philosophy of faith, this groundbreaking quantity engages discussions in philosophy of arithmetic, philosophy of language, metaphysics, and metaontology.
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The set theoretical hierarchy, starting at zero and proceeding up through the natural numbers to transfinite numbers. (Adapted from A. W. 46 Consider the cluster of divine attributes which go to make up God’s nature. Call that nature deity. On Platonism, deity is an abstract object existing independently of God, to which God stands in the relation of exemplification or instantiation. Moreover, it is in virtue of standing in relation to this object that God is divine. He is God because He exemplifies deity.
2 = {Ø, {Ø}}, a set of two members. 1 = {Ø}, a set of one member. 0 = Ø, the empty set. There are no sets below here. Figure 2. The set theoretical hierarchy, starting at zero and proceeding up through the natural numbers to transfinite numbers. (Adapted from A. W. 46 Consider the cluster of divine attributes which go to make up God’s nature. Call that nature deity. On Platonism, deity is an abstract object existing independently of God, to which God stands in the relation of exemplification or instantiation.
Nothing, he says, of intelligibles can be known to us from sense. 19; cf. 14). Hippolytus then makes the connection with Valentinus: ‘And from this (system), not from the Gospels, Valentinus . . 24). Hippolytus charges that ‘Valentinus . . and the entire school of these (heretics), as disciples of Pythagoras and Plato, (and) following these guides, have laid down as the fundamental principle of their doctrine the arithmetical system. 24). 41 Combining the Gospel of John’s presentation of Christ as the pre-existent Logos, who in the beginning was with 41 For a discussion of texts taken from pseudo-Justin, Irenaeus, Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Augustine, see Harry Austryn Wolfson, The Philosophy of the Church Fathers, i.