Furthermore, some states of affairs entail certain properties.
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.
The problem, in short, is that any axiological formulation of the argument from evil, as it stands, is incomplete in a crucial respect, since it fails to make explicit how a failure to bring about good states of affairs, or a failure to prevent bad states of affairs, entails that one is acting in a morally wrong way.
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.
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.
Such (alleged) goods consist in states of affairs that entail that there is no one in a position to value them.
The state of the world in 1900 only entails that Ted grabs a beer from the fridge by way of entailing the entire physical state of affairs at the later time.
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.
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.
Where p and q are states of affairs, p is the same state of affairs as q if and only if p entails q and q entails p. This explains why Chisholm said that the state of affairs of the author of Marmion being knighted is distinct from the state of affairs of the author of Waverly being knighted, even if the author of Waverly happens to be the author of Marmion.
