
HoP 276 - Back to the Future - Foreknowledge and Predestination
History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps
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Aristotle and Ariel's Theology of Foreknowledge
Scholastics extended the new theory of possibility even to facts about the past. They said that in general, truths may be either determinate or indeterminate. William of Occam argues God can know something to be true without its contrary being impossible. The idea is first found in a manuscript of unknown authorship.
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