Nozick: advantage: there is no "outisde".
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God: God is a supreme being or creator deity that is worshipped in various religions. God is often described as being omnipotent (all-powerful), omniscient (all-knowing), and omnibenevolent (all-good). God is also often believed to be the creator and sustainer of the universe. See also Religion, Religious belief, Theology, Creation myth, Culture, Cultural tradition._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.
Author
Concept
Summary/Quotes
Sources
Robert Nozick on God - Dictionary of Arguments
II 152
God/Plato/Nozick: Plato’s thesis: "God is beyond being".
Nozick: advantage: there is no "outisde".
>Inside/outside, >Plato,
>Being.
Neither it does exist, nor it does not exist. - It is beyond the categories.
>Categories.
Predicates/Nozick: contain a presupposition that they may be true of something at all.
>Presupposition, >Predicates, >Predication.
Question: Does the term pair existence/nonexistence have such a presupposition?
>Existence, >Non-existence._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals
indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate
the page number. The corresponding books
are indicated on the right hand side.
((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
No I
R. Nozick
Philosophical Explanations Oxford 1981
No II
R., Nozick
The Nature of Rationality 1994