The Mark and the Void by Paul Murray (Hamish Hamilton) Paul Murray's comic novel about the fall-out of the financial crisis in Ireland, told through the eyes of a French banker who is being shadowed by a novelist (and all the "meta" aspects that entails) distinguishes itself in another crowded field of post-financial collapse fictions.
For instance, the principle of identity, Everything is identical to itself entails There exists something that is identical to itself.
We live in communion with it, since the environment itself entails ethical limits which human activity must acknowledge and respect.
Recognition of this fact, by itself, entails nothing about how we should act towards those with whom we disagree.
(The reply Walton (2000) himself gives is that the claim that (S1) entails (S2) is itself pretend-true).
I then lay out and solve a continuous-time model of policy adoption in which the policy itself entails sunk costs, and environmental damage is irreversible.
On the whole, these arguments either allege that the notion of a created thing itself entails that what is created has a temporal beginning or point to alleged paradoxes stemming from the supposition of an infinite past.
The proposition "God can produce A from his absolute power," means that it is possible for God to produce A (because A in itself entails no contradictory propositions being simultaneously true), and A is not compatible with his existing statutes.
It is sometimes asserted that the simple fact that the metric field (or the connection it determines) distinguishes, at every location, motions that are 'absolutely' accelerated and/or 'absolutely rotating' from those that are not, by itself entails that GTR fails to embody a folk-Leibniz style general relativity of motion (e.g. Earman (1989), ch.
Now from the assumptions that God is omniscient and that God believes p, it follows that p. If we strengthen the first assumption to hold either that God is essentially omniscient or that he is infallible (see section 3 above), the proposition God believes p by itself entails p, that is, it is not possible that God believe p and p be false.
This is because baseline testing itself entails an additional elaboration of the items tested and an explicit linking of cue words to operations of retrieval in forward direction, which would not only generally enhance memory retention of these items but also obscure differential effects on forward/backward associations.
