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Ability-Based Objections To No-Best-World Arguments, Brian Kierland, Philip Swenson
Ability-Based Objections To No-Best-World Arguments, Brian Kierland, Philip Swenson
Brian Kierland
In the space of possible worlds, there might be a best possible world (a uniquely best world or a world tied for best with some other worlds). Or, instead, for every possible world, there might be a better possible world. Suppose that the latter is true, i.e., that there is no best world. Many have thought that there is then an argument against the existence of God, i.e., the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient and morally perfect being; we will call such arguments no-best-world arguments. In this paper, we discuss ability-based objections to such arguments; an ability-based objection to a …
Necessity And Color Incompatibility, Brian Kierland
Necessity And Color Incompatibility, Brian Kierland
Brian Kierland
A traditional view is that all necessary truths are analytic. A frequent objection is that certain claims of color incompatibility – e.g., 'Nothing is both red and green all over' – are necessarily true but not analytic. I argue that this objection to the traditional view fails because such color incompatibility claims are either analytic or contingent.