... independence, and divine immutability, and as a result he is a necessitarian. The chapter considers passages that might appear to suggest otherwise—especially passages that treat voluntarism and the eternal truths and passages that treat contingency—and argues that these demand a fresh reading. The chapter...

... knowledge Scholastics and Scholasticism Augustine B series in time subsistential propositions A characteristics and A series of time metatimes passage of time Lowell A Mead G H time tense pure manifold theory eternal truth determinism fatalism future contingent ‘There is some sense...

... or eternal truths within God. The latter point raises an important question about the nature of God’s knowledge of creation. Many medieval philosophers held that God knows creaturely essences by knowing ideas in his understanding, and that he uses these ideas as exemplars for creation. But I have shown...

... studies the concept of eternal truth and its relation to the emerging notion of Laws of Nature. The third part of the chapter explicates Spinoza’s original understanding of eternity as a modal concept. For Spinoza, eternity is a unique kind of necessary existence...

... metaphysical theses, but in his own peculiar way. Mersenne Marin Marin Mersenne hypothetical status of science deceiving God eternal truth science of the atheist Cartesian metaphysics and theology Born in 1588, Marin Mersenne was educated from 1604 to 1609 (approx.) at La Flèche. He studied...