
HoP 119 - John Marenbon on Boethius
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Is There a God Who Knows Everything?
Boethius didn't make a big deal about the fact that God already knew things in the past. In order to have an apparatus of propositional logic, which Boethius simply didn't have,. If you look at his work on propositional Logic, his textbook on hypothetical syllogisms, you see that he didn't understand propositional logic. So he just couldn't have made that argument properly. And the other thing is that if that had been his argument, it was very simple. It was very straightforward. But in fact, you find a lot of detail argumentation between putting forward the problem and bringing up this idea of eternity. That would just be pointless if that were the
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