Venegas-Aravena, Patricio (2025) Challenging Umberto Eco's Logical Critique of Theism via Physica Mutabilis and Omnis Verum Simul. UNSPECIFIED.
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The traditional dispute regarding the existence of God has historically hinged upon the foundations of logic and epistemology, wherein principles such as causality and non-contradiction have proven crucial for arguments both supporting and opposing divine attributes. Umberto Eco’s critique of theism, representative of Western rationalism, assumes a classical logic of universal and timeless validity. However, recent advancements in multiscale thermodynamics, specifically the concepts of Physica Mutabilis (changing physical laws) and Scientia Præteriti (structural time lag between knowledge and the physical present of the universe), could potentially alter the very structure of logic. This paper explores a scenario wherein logic itself becomes contextually dependent, rendering the coexistence of a proposition and its negation (Omnis Verum Simul ) an ontological possibility. Furthermore, it analyzes how this perspective challenges classical logical objections to the existence of God (omnipresence, omniscience, and omnipotence) as advanced by Eco, suggesting that logic, anchored to a particular set of physical laws, lacks absolute universality. The resolution of apparent contradictions in divine attributes, such as simultaneous presence and absence, within asynchronous causal frameworks is discussed. Moreover, the idea of external forces, characteristic of the Principium Luxuriæ which permits Physica Mutabilis and the dynamics of the entities composing the universe, is posited as a factor that could enable the simultaneity of presence and absence in an entity. Ultimately, while this work does not constitute proof of God’s existence, it is argued that a dynamic universe necessitates a reconsideration of fundamental philosophical distinctions and the very notion of existence under a temporally displaced logic, thereby reopening the metaphysical plausibility of the divine and challenging the limits of a metaphysics predicated upon a static logic.
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| Keywords: | Multiscale Thermodynamics, Logical critique of Theism, volving Physical Laws, Omnis Verum Simul, Principium Luxuriæ, Scientia Præteriti. | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics General Issues > Laws of Nature ٠ Out of Print ٠ |
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| Depositing User: | Dr. Patricio Venegas-Aravena | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 16 May 2025 12:49 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 16 May 2025 12:49 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 25320 | ||||||
| Subjects: | General Issues > Scientific Metaphysics General Issues > Causation Specific Sciences > Physics > Classical Physics General Issues > Laws of Nature ٠ Out of Print ٠ |
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| Date: | 15 May 2025 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/25320 |
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