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John Leslie Mackie FBA (25 August 1917 – 12 December 1981) was an Australian philosopher. He made significant contributions to ethics, the philosophy of religion, metaphysics, and the philosophy of language. Mackie had influential views on metaethics, including his defence of moral scepticism and his sophisticated defence of atheism. He wrote ...
An inconsistent triad consists of three propositions of which at most two can be true. For example: Alice loves me. Alice sends flowers to people she loves. Alice has not sent me flowers. If one finds oneself believing all three propositions of an inconsistent triad, then (in order to be rational) one must give up or modify at least one of ...
Plantinga's argument is a defense against the logical problem of evil as formulated by the philosopher J. L. Mackie beginning in 1955. [2] [3] Mackie's formulation of the logical problem of evil argued that three attributes ascribed to God (omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence) are logically incompatible with the existence of evil.
The first chapter, "The Subjectivity of Values," opens with Mackie's rejection of moral universalism: "There are no objective values." [1] This chapter is well known for advancing two arguments against moral universalism: the argument from disagreement and the argument from queerness.
John Mackie may refer to: John C. Mackie (1920–2008), U.S. Representative from Michigan; John Duncan Mackie (1887–1978), Scottish historian; J. L. Mackie (1917–1981), Australian-born philosopher, best known for his views on meta-ethics; John Mackie, Baron John-Mackie (1909–1994), British Labour Member of Parliament 1959–1974
An omnipotent being with both first and second-order omnipotence at a particular time might restrict its own power to act and, henceforth, cease to be omnipotent in either sense. There has been considerable philosophical dispute since Mackie, as to the best way to formulate the paradox of omnipotence in formal logic. [16] God and logic
"JL Schellenberg": Offers more information and updates on Schellenberg's hiddenness argument. "The Argument from (Reasonable) Nonbelief" at Infidels.org: contains a large number of papers mainly focusing on Theodore Drange's formulation. "The Argument from Unbelief" at Philosophy of Religion .Info: Offers a simple overview and rebuttal.
A medical triad is a group of three signs or symptoms, the result of injury to three organs, which characterise a specific medical condition. The appearance of all three signs conjoined together in another patient, points to that the patient has the same medical condition, or diagnosis.