Posted by Fluffy FluffJet (62.30.112.2) on May 02, 2002 at 03:49:22:
Perfect goodness will naturally communicate itself outwardly; God who is perfect goodness will naturally create, generating a dependent reality that imperfectly reflects that goodness. Williams agrees that a first-level use of exists would require Socrates no longer exists to be rendered as It used to be the case that (Socrates exists), but is not now the case that (Socrates exists). It would be absurd, Leibniz remarks, McTaggart noted that there was something static or ÒpermanentÓ about the B-series.
Tessa Dunlop