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Anti-Platonic Realism

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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The Bootstrapping Problem and the Circularity Argument

If God is the being who invented time, can we actually talk of things being before and after prior to that creation of time? It's absolutely critical in understanding the bootstrapping objection that we understand we're not talking about temporal priority because you're quite right. Properties will exist eternally and necessarily. So it's not a temporal or chronological priority, but an explanatory or causal one.

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