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Summary Against Modern Thought: Free Will Is Still Subject To God

Previous post. God can bend the will. Why not? How He does so, is not given here. THAT HUMAN ACTS OF CHOICE AND OF WILL ARE SUBJECT TO DIVINE PROVIDENCE…

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A Failed Argument Against Free Will: Predicting Actions

It is always hilarious when people rail against free will, who are especially flummoxed that Common Man believes in free will, and say "If only people realized their choices weren't…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Divine Providence Does Not Exclude Free Will

Previous post. God exists. And, as promised, so does your freedom of will! THAT DIVINE PROVIDENCE DOES NOT EXCLUDE FREEDOM OF CHOICE 1 From this it is also evident that…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: Proper Ends

Previous post. ANSWER TO THE PREVIOUS ARGUMENTS 1 So, then, it is not difficult to answer the arguments that have been presented. 2 As a matter of fact, we are…

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Is A Material Bearer of Consciousness Intelligible? Part 2 — Guest Post by The Cranky Professor

See Part I here. In this essay, I will summarize and expound more on the “divisible parts problem” in materialism and why the concept of the soul (or ‘mental substance’)…

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Summary Against Modern Thought: How Demons Sin

Previous post. The way demons sin is constrained, and has to do with who they would follow. THAT SIN CAN OCCUR IN DEMONS, AND IN WHAT WAY 1 However, that…

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You Cannot Be An Illusion

"Increasingly, however, scientists are finding that the self is a kind of necessary illusion manufactured by the brain and often more fragile than we'd like to imagine." So says an…

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Does Free Will Exist In The Universe? (That Would Be A Yes.)

Embedded in nearly every argument against free will is the Appeal to Effeminacy. Here it is in Alfredo Metere's new Cosmos article "Does free will exist in the universe? (That…

Phil R on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
...and I saw 5 or 25 in the figure. The division answer never occurred to me. Got all the rest…
Phil R on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
If someone asks a question that is conditional on some evidence or rule that they conveniently (or purposely) leave out,…
McChuck on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
The answer for the pictured question is obviously '1', as the slot already has a '1' in it, which has…
Briggs on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
Mark, That's exactly it.
Mark on Test Your IQ With These Puzzles! (Not So Easy!)July 1, 2025
Wittgenstein gave some examples like this in his Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics, a book I had no business…