Time and Eternity: Ockham's Logical Point of View
Tetsuro SHIMIZU
ABSTRACT :
This paper argues that
(1) Ockham's claims concerning the truth and
modality of tensed propositions consist of two principles:
(p1) the timeless logical relationship between present-tense
propositions and past- or future-tense ones, and (p2) the change in the
modality of events in process of time;
(2) that Ockham considers predestination and God's
foreknowlege to be simultaneous with (i.e., not temporally prior to) His
future action, which is present to Him;
(3) that Ockham thus tries
to express timeless eternity through describing its relation to the
temporal realm, using terms without cutting off temporality from them.
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