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Benjamin Robert Goodman
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‘Past’ and ‘future’ would be themselves arbitrary distinctions, not relevant to eternity. If my death is present to God and enjoys a ‘now necessity’ because God is present to it, it cannot fail to occur as it does. It would be the same as the past events God cannot change.
January 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
God, being present to all things, knows all ‘future’ contingents, but if He knows infallibly what I’ve done in the past (only because I’ve done it) then He can know infallibly in the future what I will do (because I will *have* done it from some future vantage).
January 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Rather being self-conscious, the thought X is A & these thought are mine and theirs, and none others; we know all this through our thoughts thinking themselves.
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM
It cannot be so that there is “X is A” & there is the act of us judging that “X is A”, for “X is A” is not some content to which I “apply” the judgment that it’s true. The “true” label isn’t some special third thing alongside me & “X is A”.
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM
In our thinking that X is A, our judgment is us thinking it (X is A) worthy to be judged; I self-consciously think this, that X is A is objective, and this objectivity is self-conscious. There is no “X is A” and “those three thinking X is A”, for to know judgment is to know what judgment judges.
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM
The it seems that the truth X is A is only known as us knowing it as objective—as objectively to be known and so valid. What we think is what we know as we think it. Our thoughts think nothing but themselves.
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM
But can what I think (the truth of X is A) be separable from me thinking it? It seems not. Neither can my friends’ thinking X is A be separated from their thinking it, even though they think it absent time (t) & event (z). Their time & event is wholly other than mine.
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM
To think X is A is to think it apart of anything of my friends who also think X is A, so each of us believe X is A independent of any facts about each of us. By thinking so, I think the judgment to be objective, and my thought the validity itself.
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM
Suppose two more come along, & also judges X is A. They do this without anything that is true of me (regardless of my experience at time (t) & event (z), which informs my character). In judging that X is A, they affirm my judgment & its objectivity & validity, & I affirm theirs.
November 16, 2024 at 9:16 PM