Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

228 J.J. Haldane analogical sense to that of ‘body’ as it is predicated of a piece of stone, say. Stonesarebodies in as much as ...

Further Reflections on Theism 229 theism; and fourth, to encourage others to develop the ‘Prime Thinker’ line(s) of thought. Bes ...

230 J.J. Haldane the stages of linguistic development, cannot account for conceptual thought as this is instanced by, and expres ...

Further Reflections on Theism 231 Relatedly, there are two causal series operating in the induction of concept use. In the examp ...

232 J.J. Haldane Such, then, are my disambiguated arguments for a ‘Prime Thinker’. As I said, I hope that others might feel ther ...

Further Reflections on Theism 233 extra-mental over and above a set of individuals provides the meaning of a general term. The ‘ ...

234 J.J. Haldane It is clear that the appeals are to experience of the world as the realist conceives it. It is important to not ...

Further Reflections on Theism 235 writing after Hegel but before Heidegger, described as ‘teutonic’ philosophy,^12 but the langu ...

236 J.J. Haldane the thought or perception of a cat say, there are two aspects: nature (the con- ceptual or perceptual content), ...

Further Reflections on Theism 237 these points, one may reply to Berkeley that while whatever is thought of is conceived, this i ...

238 J.J. Haldane can know nothing, or to statements about them, the truth conditions of which may be inconceivable? Recalling th ...

Further Reflections on Theism 239 His doubts are due to what he acknowledges as the implausibility of suppos- ing that truth is ...

240 J.J. Haldane rests on implausible and avoidable claims about the objects of cognition being mental items. Berkeley’s argumen ...

Further Reflections on Theism 241 the hypothesis that there is a God, I take it to refute the assumption that God is complex. So ...

242 J.J. Haldane The mathematical model is unsuitable in as much as its existents are abstracta while God is real; but it is non ...

Further Reflections on Theism 243 event has a cause’ is necessarily true (and in that sense is ‘self-evident in itself ’, if not ...

244 J.J. Haldane actual. Since any purported parallel will be an example of a created reality, which is precisely not simple, an ...

Further Reflections on Theism 245 Personally, I am in something of two minds about the possibility that we may not comprehend th ...

246 J.J. Haldane but which will not be made the better for being elaborated at length. I do not assume that we can tell whatsort ...

Further Reflections on Theism 247 assuming what is implicit in the second premise, namely that it is impossible that a natural d ...