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geebob
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  		   Posted 10/28/2003 4:31 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
...where relations of irrelevence exists.

and yes, such relations do exist in our world and quite possibly all of what the molinist would call feasible worlds. Does this lead to an open future? no. What it does do is it forces the molinist to more consistently deal with the implications of the conjoined might counterfactual.

First, lets clear the the air. it seems that there is a confusion about what "might" is. To say that x might happen is to say that that at least in some of the closest possible worlds, x will happen. merely calling it logical possibility is an odd sort of thing to say.


Now lets have an example. If Greg boyd has oatmeal for breakfast, William Lane craig might have have italian food for dinner. And of course it is true that he might not have italian food for dinner in the world in which Greg Boyd has oatmeal for dinner.

Determinism could be true and this conjoined might would still be true!

Of course this won't do for free will and I believe the answer is to suggest a princple of universal causation where some situations necessarily entail that for all relevent circumstances, x may or may not do y.

not that that is relevent to my claim. Basically, irrelevence forces the molinist to grasp the implications of the might counterfactual.

I will gladly pay you teusday for a hamburger today.

-Wimpy

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geebob
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  		   Posted 10/29/2003 4:30 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
This also presumes that spurious correlations do not consistently hold throughout accessible worlds that are equidistant from the world under consideration.

I will gladly pay you teusday for a hamburger today.

-Wimpy

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