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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.
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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.

 
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Thomas Aquinas on God - Dictionary of Arguments

Holz II 106
God/Thomas Aquinas: God is not the mirror of all things, but things are a mirror of God - but the recognition of a thing in the mirror is speculative recognition- Descartes: God cannot deceive because of his perfection.
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Geach I 318
Relationships/God/Human/World/Aquinas/Geach: human relations: are "real" (within the world).
Divine relations to humans: are not "real". - E.g.,
1. "God rules the world"
2. "The world is ruled by God" - both are logically equivalent. And both are true according to Thomas Aquinas, but only the second is a "real" relation according to him (because only secular things can enter into real relations) - this is Thomas Aquinas' "deep understanding that the way our mind works must not be the way, as things are".
AquinasVsWittgenstein: that is, that our mind is not necessarily a "mirror of the world" (Tractatus).
>Tractatus
, >L. Wittgenstein, >World, >World/Thinking, >Reality, >Mirror/Rorty.

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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.

Holz I
Hans Heinz Holz
Leibniz Frankfurt 1992

Holz II
Hans Heinz Holz
Descartes Frankfurt/M. 1994

Gea I
P.T. Geach
Logic Matters Oxford 1972


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