Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

First, see William Lane Craig’s discussion of it and the cited literature. Suppose that instead of the human agent we had a computer programmed with a fairly complex algorithm to output either 1, corresponding to “box 2 only,” or 2, corresponding to “both boxes.” Also, instead of the being-predictor let’s add to our picture the [...]

Aquinas’s solution is mysterious: Hence, whoever knows a contingent effect in its cause only, has merely a conjectural knowledge of it. Now God knows all contingent things not only as they are in their causes, but also as each one of them is actually in itself. And although contingent things become actual successively, nevertheless God [...]

Here is the master himself: Consequently, when man knows an effect, and knows that it has a cause, there naturally remains in the man the desire to know about the cause, “what it is.” And this desire is one of wonder, and causes inquiry… For instance, if a man, knowing the eclipse of the sun, [...]