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Existence and God's Attributes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

James E. Tomberlin
James E. Tomberlin
Affiliation:
California State University, Northridge
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The purpose of the present paper is to formulate and (hopefully) resolve a certain puzzle surrounding God's existence and the standard attributes traditionally assigned to God (omnipotence, perfect goodness, omniscience, and the like).

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Religious Studies , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 1974 , pp. 219 - 223
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1974

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page 220 note 1 For the argument see my papers: ‘Singular Terms and Truth-Values’, Logigue et Analyse, Vol. XI (December 1968): 516–520Google Scholar; ‘Plantinga's Puzzles About God and Other Minds’, The Philosophical Forum, Vol. I, No. 3 (Spring 1969): 365–92Google Scholar; ‘A Correct Account of Essentialism?’, Critica, Vol. IV, No. 11–12 (May-September 1970): 55–64Google Scholar; ‘Prior on Time and Tense’, Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XXIV, No. 1 (September 1970): 57–81.Google Scholar‘Omniscience and Necessity: Putting Humpty-Dumpty Together Again’, The Philosophical Forum, Vol. II, No. 1 (Fall 1970): 149–51Google Scholar; ‘Malcolm on the Ontological Argument’ Religious Studies, Vol. 8, No. 1 (March 1972): 65–70CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and ‘Existence and Existence Attributes’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming).

page 220 note 2 For details, see my papers: ‘Prior on Time and Tense’, op. cit.; ‘Existence-Attributes: A Second Look’, Review of Metaphysics, Vol. XXIV No. 4 (June 1971): 737–8; and ‘Existence and Existence Attributes’, op. cit.Google Scholar

page 221 note 1 Pike, Nelson, ‘Omnipotence and God's Ability to Sin’, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 3 (July 1969): 208–16.Google Scholar

page 221 note 2 Ibid. p. 208.

page 221 note 3 Ibid. p. 209.

page 223 note 1 I am indebted to my colleagues, Frank McGuinness and Dan Sedey, for valuable advice and criticism.