Vagueness and the problem of evil: a new reply to van inwagen

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Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, Luis
Data de Publicação: 2021
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: por
Título da fonte: Manuscrito (Online)
Texto Completo: https://periodicos.sbu.unicamp.br/ojs/index.php/manuscrito/article/view/8668864
Resumo: One of the few points of agreement between most theists and non-theists working on the problem of evil is that the existence of a perfect God is incompatible with the existence of pointless evil. In a series of influential papers, however, Peter van Inwagen has argued that careful attention to the reasoning behind this claim reveals fatal difficulties related to the Sorites Paradox. In this paper, I explain van Inwagen’s appeal to sorites reasoning, distinguish between two different arguments in his work, and argue that they both commit the same so-far-unnoticed mistake.
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Vagueness and the problem of evil: a new reply to van inwagen
title Vagueness and the problem of evil: a new reply to van inwagen
spellingShingle Vagueness and the problem of evil: a new reply to van inwagen
Oliveira, Luis
Vagueness
Problem of Evil
Peter van Inwagen
title_short Vagueness and the problem of evil: a new reply to van inwagen
title_full Vagueness and the problem of evil: a new reply to van inwagen
title_fullStr Vagueness and the problem of evil: a new reply to van inwagen
title_full_unstemmed Vagueness and the problem of evil: a new reply to van inwagen
title_sort Vagueness and the problem of evil: a new reply to van inwagen
author Oliveira, Luis
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Vagueness
Problem of Evil
Peter van Inwagen
topic Vagueness
Problem of Evil
Peter van Inwagen
description One of the few points of agreement between most theists and non-theists working on the problem of evil is that the existence of a perfect God is incompatible with the existence of pointless evil. In a series of influential papers, however, Peter van Inwagen has argued that careful attention to the reasoning behind this claim reveals fatal difficulties related to the Sorites Paradox. In this paper, I explain van Inwagen’s appeal to sorites reasoning, distinguish between two different arguments in his work, and argue that they both commit the same so-far-unnoticed mistake.
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