The Words of Theology
The Words of Theology
2 Medieval and Modern Accounts
Duns Scotus held that the divine predicates (words such as ‘omnipotent’ used to refer to properties of God) are used in the same senses as their ordinary senses; and in effect Aquinas held the same view. Kant and Alston held that the senses of these predicates are the same in respect of the observable consequences of a being having the relevant properties, but convey no information about what such a being is like in itself. Ramsey and Crombie held that the ascription of these predicates to a being pointed to some property of that being with a remote similarity to a property possessed by humans. I develop their account in a more rigorous form in Chapter 4.
Keywords: W. P. Alston, analogy, Aquinas, I. M. Crombie, Duns Scotus, Kant, metaphor, I. T. Ramsey
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