{"id":1115,"date":"2023-12-01T15:26:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/euthyphro-dilemma-divine-simplicity-and-modal-collapse\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T15:26:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T15:26:33","slug":"euthyphro-dilemma-divine-simplicity-and-modal-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/euthyphro-dilemma-divine-simplicity-and-modal-collapse\/","title":{"rendered":"Euthyphro Dilemma, Divine Simplicity, and Modal Collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/open.substack.com\/pub\/williamfvallicella\/p\/euthyphro-dilemma-divine-simplicity?r=f3tzc&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web\">Top<\/a> o&#39; the <em>Stack<\/em>. Another deep dive into one of the gnarliest conundra in natural theology.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">The problem may be cast in the mold of an aporetic tetrad:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">1) Classical theism is untenable if the ED cannot be defeated.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">2) The ED can be defeated only if DDS is true.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">3) DDS entails the collapse of modal distinctions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 13pt;\">4) Classical theism is inconsistent with the collapse of modal distinctions because, on classical theism, God is metaphysically necessary while the world of creatures is metaphysically contingent.&#0160;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Top o&#39; the Stack. Another deep dive into one of the gnarliest conundra in natural theology. The problem may be cast in the mold of an aporetic tetrad: 1) Classical theism is untenable if the ED cannot be defeated. 2) The ED can be defeated only if DDS is true. 3) DDS entails the collapse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2023\/12\/01\/euthyphro-dilemma-divine-simplicity-and-modal-collapse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Euthyphro Dilemma, Divine Simplicity, and Modal Collapse&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,439,143,234,235,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-simplicity","category-euthyphro-paradox","category-god","category-modal-collapse","category-modal-matters","category-substack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}