Abstract

Traditional Christianity holds that God is a singular way, not dependent on the conceptual machinations of humans. I argue that God can be plural ways, different in different human conceptual schemes, all the while holding to traditional Christianity. In short, I provide a framework for an ontological pluralism that extends not just to the world being various ways but to God being various ways.

Highlights

  • Noetic irrealism holds that the world is made or shaped in significant ways by the noetic activity of humans

  • Such Christians think of God in noncognitive qua emotivist terms, as cognitive but as a human conceptual construct or, where pluralistic, as a human construct who appears in some ways the world is and not in others

  • How could the creator of all exist only in some ontologies when all the ontologies provide for true descriptions? when it comes to God the traditionalist typically rejects the noetic irrealism on which most pluralist accounts depend

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Summary

Introduction

Noetic irrealism holds that the world is made or shaped in significant ways (beyond the making of artifacts or new ideas) by the noetic activity of humans. In their core natures, are virtual absolutes who, of necessity, exist within the conceptual schemes we humans have.

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