Continuous Creation, Occasionalism, and Persistence

Anfray, Jean-Pascal; Antoine-Mahut, Delphine; Roux, Sophie

doi:10.4324/9780429435294-12

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“…McCann and Kvanvig, however, still think that God determines both essential and accidental properties of objects (597). Another Christian historical figure other than Edwards who believes in the literal, "strong" view of continuous recreation of bodies (CC Rec ) is Leibniz's contemporary Pierre Bayle (Anfray 2019). One can also find a similar view in the early Leibniz's doctrine of transcreation (White 2000).…”

Section: The Islamic Traditionsmentioning

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Creatio Continua and Quantum Randomness

Salim

Malik

2021

Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence

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Some thinkers in the Christian and Islamic traditions assert that God doesn’t only create the universe ex nihilo, but that he also continuously recreates the universe in order to preserve its existence. This chapter will discuss randomness vis-à-vis the doctrine of continuous creation as understood in both religious traditions. We argue that the doctrine of continuous creation in its version that is held by both Christians and Muslims would preclude ontic quantum randomness. The reason is that in the doctrine of continuous creation, God is ultimately and meticulously responsible for the existence of objects and properties at every single moment.

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Section: The Islamic Traditionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creatio Continua and Quantum Randomness

Salim

Malik

2021

Abrahamic Reflections on Randomness and Providence

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“…to what can be truly predicated of substances (Rauzy 2001;Di Bella 2005). But after 1690, his opposition to the sort of strongly reductionist accounts of modes that one may find in Bayle leads him to grant mode some reality within substance (Anfray 2018). This issue is connected with the distinction between primitive and derivative forces, the latter being the forces manifested in bodies and studied by the physicists, like the motive force measured by mv 2 , which is conserved in collision among bodies [CROSS REFERENCE LEIBNIZ].…”

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