{"id":3856,"date":"2019-04-13T14:07:58","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T14:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/13\/a-reader-proposes-a-puzzle\/"},"modified":"2019-04-13T14:07:58","modified_gmt":"2019-04-13T14:07:58","slug":"a-reader-proposes-a-puzzle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/13\/a-reader-proposes-a-puzzle\/","title":{"rendered":"A Reader Proposes a Puzzle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">This from Cyrus:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">Suppose there is a possible world in which only God exists. Further suppose that that world is actual instead of this one. Further suppose divine simplicity. What is the truthmaker for the proposition \u201cGod exists, and nothing more\u201d in that world?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino; font-size: 12pt;\">If God alone exists, and God is simple, then there are no propositions in that world, and hence no true propositions, and therefore no need for truth-makers.&#0160; Too quick?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This from Cyrus: Suppose there is a possible world in which only God exists. Further suppose that that world is actual instead of this one. Further suppose divine simplicity. What is the truthmaker for the proposition \u201cGod exists, and nothing more\u201d in that world? If God alone exists, and God is simple, then there are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2019\/04\/13\/a-reader-proposes-a-puzzle\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Reader Proposes a Puzzle&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[141,228],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-divine-simplicity","category-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856","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=3856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}