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Contents\nAcknowledgements\nA Guide to the Book: God, Truth, and other Enigmas\nPart I (God’s) Existence/Non-Existence\n Logical Necessity, Conceptual Necessity, and the Ontological Argument\n 1 What is Logical Necessity (Logical Modality)?\n 2 Conceptual Modality\n 3 Terse Formalization of a Hartshornian Modal Ontological Argument\n 4 A “Fitchy” Argument for Premise (2)\n 5 The Crucial Premise\n Problem of the Origins of Ontotheology\n 1 Towards the Theologization of Being\n 2 “Craftsman” or “Creator”?\n 3 The Unnamed, and yet Named “the Being One”: the Premises of Ontotheology\n 4 God as Esse Absolutum\n On the Anti-Ontological Doom Argument\n Nothing Is Impossible\n 1 Preliminary Matters\n 1.1 A Miscellany of Terms, Concepts, Definitions, and Assumptions\n 1.2 Kinds\n 1.3 Explanation\n 1.4 Three Principles\n 1.5 A Premise about Kinds\n 2 The Arguments\n 2.1 The Arguments\n 2.2 A Possible Objection to the Arguments\n 3 “The Mystery of Existence”\n God and Good: Does God’s Existence Imply that Anything is Good\nPart II Omniscience\n Gaps, Gluts and God\n 1 Gaps and Gluts\n 2 Milne’s Paradox\n 3 Strengthening the Milne Sentence\n 4 Conclusion\n Fitch’s Paradox and the Existence of an Omniscient Being\n 1 The Knowability Principle and Fitch’s Paradox\n 2 An Argument for an Omniscient Being\n 3 How Plausible is the Knowability Principle?\n 4 Concluding Remarks\n Vagueness and Omniscience\n 1 Introduction\n 2 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: First Proposal\n 3 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: Objection to the First Proposal\n 4 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: Second Proposal\n 5 Cooperation by an Omniscient Being: Objection to the Second Proposal\n 6 Some Conclusive Remarks\n God’s Omniscience and Logical Virtue\n 1 Introduction\n 2 Cantor’s Argument and the Complete Knowledge of God\n 3 The Liar and the Sound Knowledge of God\n 4 McTaggart’s Paradox, and Various Semantical Approaches to Time\n 5 Anderson-type Semantics Taking into Account the Time and the Knowledge of Truths\n 6 Conclusion\nPart III Truth\n Logic and Truth in Religious Belief\n 1 Introduction\n 2 Logic and Religious Belief\n 3 Faith Pragmatics and Truth\n 4 Appearance and Truth in Religious Belief (Semantics)\n 4.1 Logic QB Modified\n 4.2 Formal Analysis of John 3\n Absolute Truth and Mathematics\n The Divine Belief Theory of Truth: Might It Work?\n 1 The Theory\n 2 Statement and Some Merits\n 2.1 Beliefs by a Perfect Beings\n 2.2 Sentential Truth\n 2.3 Some Merits\n 3 Objections\n 3.1 The Euthyphro Objection\n 3.2 Knowledge\n 3.3 Epistemological Circularity\n 3.4 Atheists and Truth\n 3.5 The Liar Paradox\n 3.6 Similarity to Occasionalism\n 4 Conclusions\n Makers and Models: Two Approaches to Truth, and their Merger\n 1 Introduction: Tarski and Nominalism\n 2 Truth, Consequence, and Models\n 3 Makers\n 4 Models\n 5 Multitudes\n 6 Models from Multitudes\n 7 Consequences for Nominalists\n 8 Open Questions and Conclusion\nPart IV Metaphysical Enigmas\n Agnosticism about Material Composition\n 1 Introduction\n 2 Agnosticism about Material Composition\n 3 Conceptual Analysis\n 4 Common Sense\n 5 Science\n 6 Simplicity\n 7 Philosophical Argument\n 8 Reflections and Recriminations\n Existential Dependence and other Formal Relations\n 1 Formal Relations\n 2 Ontological Dependence\n 3 Existential Dependence\n 4 Existential Dependence and the Three-Categorial Ontology\n 5 Formal Relations and Their Possible Function in Philosophical Theology\n Wittgenstein on Faith and Reason: The Influence of Newman\n 1 Introductory Remarks\n 2 Wittgenstein on the Structure of Reasons\n 3 Newman on Faith and Reason\n 4 On Certainty\n 5 Concluding Remarks\n Necessity, Worlds, and God\n 1 Introduction\n 2 A Most Common Strategy\n 3 Necessity and Worlds\n 4 Necessity and God\n 5 Be Careful What You Wish For\n 6 How Not to Argue for the Plurality\n 7 Rods for Their Own Backs\n 8 God, Necessity, and Limits\n 9 Conclusion\n The Explanatory Power of Topology in the Philosophy of God\n 1 Goal\n 2 Mathematical Theology\n 3 Mathematica Theologiae Ancilla\n 4 Topology – Basic Ideas and Concepts\n 5 Topological Explanations in the Philosophy of God\n 5.1 God’s Suffering vs. God’s Infinite Power. Is God a Topological Space?\n 5.2 God as a Closure of the World\n 5.3 God-Topology: Connected and not Metrizable?\n 5.4 Topological Analysis of Unity of God\n 6 The Explanatory Power and Limits of Topological Explanations\nAuthors of Contributed Papers\nAuthor Index\nSubject Index