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God and Necessity. By Brian Leftow. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, 575 pp., £62.50 ISBN 978-0-19-926335-6

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2013

William Lane Craig
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Philosophy , Volume 89 , Issue 1 , January 2014 , pp. 171 - 176
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2013 

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1 I have commented in more detail on Leftow's modal theory in my review of his book in Faith and Philosophy (forthcoming). Here I focus on his subsidiary project.

2 Especially congenial to the fictionalist will be Leftow's account of possible and necessary secular truths on the basis of God's deciding to permit or prevent that P: possibly P iff from eternity God does not prevent that P, and necessarily P iff from eternity God permits only that P (i.e., prevents that ¬P) (410).