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Episode 23, Divine Simplicity and Modal Collapse with Steven Nemes

The Reluctant Theologian Podcast

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Is There a Coherence in the Possible World?

"I think that there's god, right? And on the basis of divine omnipotence, from god, there emerges perhaps, this sort of panoply of possible beings," he says. "And what happens when god creates is that one of them is actualized." But how do you get these individual specific worlds popping up if god isn't intending to create any at all?, asks David Frum in an interview with The New York Review of Books.

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