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| The world is a mechanism, and all events and choices have been determined by earlier conditions |
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If Determinism is true and all things are predetermined, then if one knew ALL the forces that set nature in motion and ALL precise locations and velocities of every thing/atom in the universe, and one was able to put that data to analysis, then they would "embrace in a single formula the movements of the greatest bodies of the universe and those of the tiniest atom; for such an intellect nothing would be uncertain and the future just like the past would be present before its eyes.
-This would have to be a computer of some sort |
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Opposite to determinism, this theory states that events are not caused or caused deterministically by prior events.
-Related to chance/free will |
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The belief that both determinism and indeterminism or free will can co-exist together without being logically inconsistent.
-Must be a link between our free will and our actions that allows us to take responsibility for our actions
-Credit for the good and blame for the bad |
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| The amount of happiness an action is expected to create in the world |
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| Objective vs. Formal Reality |
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Formal Reality -
- the reality something has in virtue of existing in itself
-3 types: Infinite, Finite, and Modes
-God only has infinite because He does not require anything other than himself to exist. Modes would be like the shape of my hand having to rely on my hand for existence, while my hand being Finite because it does not require having a specific shape to exist.
Objective Reality -
-bascially the ideas that you have of anything that is of formal reality.
-God has infinite objective reality, while ideas of your cousin would have finite objective reality, and ideas of the color red would have modal objective reality. |
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