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Claims and the problem of evil

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  2. Where ‘the actual world’ and ‘∞’ designate rigidly.

  3. The same conclusion holds, of course, forany proposition reporting the obtaining of a state of affairs at a world W.

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Schellenberg, J.L. Claims and the problem of evil. SOPH 32, 56–61 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02773080

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