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Temporal Wholes and the Problem of Evil

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Mark T. Nelson
Mark T. Nelson
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Department of Philosophy, Hampden-Sydney College, Hampden-Sydney, Virginia 23943
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This article is not intended to state what I positively believe to be true, but to make a suggestion which I think it well-worth working out. The suggestion is not altogether unfamiliar, but it has certain implications that seem to have been so far overlooked, or at any rate have never been developed. I do not think that it is the duty of a philosopher to confine himself in his publications to working out theories of the truth of which he is convinced.… It is a part of a philosopher's work, as it is of a scientist's, to try out tentative hypotheses and examine their advantages and disadvantages (Ewing 1939, p. 1).

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Religious Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1993, pp. 313 - 324
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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