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An Archimedean point (Latin: Punctum Archimedis) is a hypothetical viewpoint from which certain objective truths can perfectly be perceived (also known as a God's-eye view) or a reliable starting point from which one may reason.
Perceiving God received positive reviews from Terrence W. Tilley in Theological Studies, [3] Brian Hebblethwaite in Modern Theology, [4] the philosopher Keith Ward in Philosophy, [5] Patrick Sherry in Religion, [6] Proudfoot in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, [7] and Matthias Steup in Noûs, [8] and a mixed review from John F. Post in The Journal of Religion. [9]
[1] [7] Abelard focused on changing man's perception of God as not offended, harsh, and judgmental, but as loving. [1] According to Abelard, "Jesus died as the demonstration of God's love", a demonstration which can change the hearts and minds of the sinners, turning back to God. [1] [3]
The Transcendental Argument for the existence of God (TAG) is an argument that attempts to prove the existence of God by appealing to the necessary conditions for the possibility of experience and knowledge. [1] A version was formulated by Immanuel Kant in his 1763 work The Only Possible Argument in Support of a Demonstration of the Existence ...
Definition 1: An object is God-like if, and only if, has all positive properties. Axiom 3: The property of being God-like is itself a positive property. Theorem 2: It is possible that there exists a God-like object (in at least one possible world, there exists a God-like object ).
Swinburne suggests that, as two basic principles of rationality, we ought to believe that things are as they seem unless and until we have evidence that they are mistaken (principle of credulity), and that those who do not have an experience of a certain type ought to believe others who say that they do in the absence of evidence of deceit or ...
Answer: To ask if the Earth moves is really to ask if we could view the Earth's movement if we were in a position to perceive the relation between the Earth and the Sun. [47] In accordance with our knowledge of the way that ideas have appeared in our minds in the past, we can make reasonable predictions about how ideas will appear to us in the ...
It may not now exist, and it need never have existed. In Descartes' terminology, what has "objective reality" is something contained in the subject's mental state and so may even be called "subjective" in present-day terms." [5]: 159 Crucial to Descartes argument is the way in which the levels of objective reality are determined.