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At several places Fitch has put forward a notion of God that deserves more attention than it has received.1 His notion is subtle; the theory in which it is couched is profound and well organized; and the arguments presented in favor of both the theory and notion are ingenious, original, and not easy to gainsay in its own terms. Nonetheless, both the notion and the theory seem unacceptable for many reasons, some of which have been discussed elsewere.2 This is not the occasion to repeat or to amplify, so much as to put forward what appears to be a more acceptable alternative.
“Verus Philosophus Est Amator Dei Et Mathematicae.”
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In particular see F. B. Fitch, “On God and Immortality,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 8 (1948): 688–693 and “The Perfection of Perfection,” The Monist 47 (1963): 466–471.
See “On Fitch’s Propositions and States of Affairs.”
A. N. Whitehead, Religion in the Making (The Macmillan Co., New York: 1926), p. 105.
Process and Reality, p. 135.
These two key pages were not commented on in III above.
As observed by Professor W. H. Sheldon in his penetrating critical remarks in his seminars on Whitehead.
Religion in the Making, p. 155.
See VIII below.
See W. V. Quine, Philosophy of Logic (Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: 1970) and “On Quine’s Philosophy of Logic” in Events, Reference, and Logical Form.
Religion in the Making, p. 131.
For a multiplicity of arguments against deviancy, see Belief, Existence, and Meaning, especially Chapter III.
F. B. Fitch, “Sketch of a Philosophy,” in The Relevance of Whitehead, ed. by I. Leclerc (George Allen and Unwin, London: 1961).
In The Philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, ed. by P. A. Schilpp.
Cf. the methods suggested in Logic, Language, and Metaphysics, Chapters VII and VIII.
F. B. Fitch, “Propositions as the Only Realities,”
Cf. A. Tarski, Introduction to Logic (Oxford University Press, New York: 1941), Chapter X.
See the author’s “In Defense of Nominalism”, in Events, Reference, and Logical Form.
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Martin, R.M. (1974). On Mathematics and the Good. In: Whitehead’s Categoreal Scheme and Other Papers . Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1610-0_7
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