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What was Hasdai Crescas’s case that an actual infinite is possible?
Is the logician’s ‘if’ what a contract means by ‘if’?
Can revelation give moral knowledge to someone who does not share the faith that received it?
Can a believer say “none of the proofs work” and lose nothing? Judah Halevi’s answer
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- What was Hasdai Crescas’s case that an actual infinite is possible?
Thank you, Miriam. So he dismantles the premise but rebuilds on contingency, which is a cleaner argument anyway. Rafael, I didn't know about his son. I will read the passages differently now.
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