For if to welcome a state of affairs entails that that state of affairs obtains, then welcoming the more complex state of affairs is logically impossible.
Furthermore, if to welcome a state of affairs entails that one believes that that state of affairs obtains, then the pertinent belief regarding the more complex state of affairs would be necessarily false.
Such (alleged) goods consist in states of affairs that entail that there is no one in a position to value them.
The plot that has Aimée pounding the cobblestones of this quaint quarter is a circular affair that entails much chasing after aging urban guerrillas who tend to be incoherent, hostile or dead when found.
Furthermore, among these states of affairs, some (iii) entail contingent intrinsic properties that may be exemplified only by individual things.[4] Chisholm says that an event is a state of affairs that satisfies all of these conditions.
Many philosophers accept the principle that if an agent has the power to bring about a state of affairs, then this entails that, possibly, the agent brings about that state of affairs.
But the very fact that some state of affairs obtains necessarily does not entail that its obtaining does not require explanation, and there is no reason why moral states of affairs would be special on this score.
The state of affairs of John's walking entails the property of walking because (i) if the state of affairs occurs, then something has the property of walking, and furthermore, whoever accepts the state of affairs believes that something has the property.
Hence Spinoza must believe that dependence and explanation are more fine-grained affairs than our modern logical entailment allows, since according to the latter, every necessary proposition entails and is entailed by every other necessary proposition.
"If the committee responsible for legal affairs considers that the proposal does not entail any substantive changes other than those identified as such in the proposal, it shall inform the committee responsible.
