PHL235H1 Lecture Notes - Regular Polygon
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Aquinas on how one can know what god is like. Our knowledge of god is derived from the perfections which flow from him to creatures, which perfections are in god in a more eminent way than in creatures. Barry miller on how we can form concepts of god"s attributes. Concepts which apply truly to god are concepts of limit case instances of creaturely properties. *a circle as a limit case regular polygon. Alienans adjective a word that when attached to a noun makes the word not really what is it. A word which does serve to change the sense of the term it qualifies. God"s power as a limit case instance of power. A series of casual powers ordered according to dependence on prior materials. A limit case of casual power in which dependence on prior materials is varied to zero.
