tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post6737822253090322112..comments2024-03-28T19:56:42.305-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: How to ever tell that your prayers have been answered?Alexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-68188756081948832882013-03-05T15:25:31.777-06:002013-03-05T15:25:31.777-06:00Yes, this was prompted by the exchange in San Anto...Yes, this was prompted by the exchange in San Antonio.<br /><br />My quoted claim doesn't follow. I left out the word "unexcluded". <br /><br />I am not sure what an interesting role would be. It seems to me that an action is done partly in fulfillment of the request if and only if the reason for the action was the request, functioning nonaberrantly as a reason here. <br /><br />You may want to look at a more developed version of the view <a href="http://secure.pdcnet.org/resphilosophica/content/resphilosophica_2013_0090_0001_0001_0021" rel="nofollow">here</a>.Alexander R Prusshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-62448914816305184602013-03-05T06:51:01.058-06:002013-03-05T06:51:01.058-06:00How does this follow from what came before it? &q...How does this follow from what came before it? "But his choice will have been made on the basis of all the reasons he is aware of in favor of it."<br /><br />The sufficient condition mentioned for knowledge is incomplete, right? Must it not include also knowing all of the stuff about God's being RM etc.?<br /><br />I think you make it too easy to say that God answers a prayer; surely the asking must play some interesting role in God's decision, not just the role you assign every request for a good thing (although I agree that it need not be so strong that God would not have done the thing had the prayer not been offered).<br /><br />You also say, "Though if he is a Christian and reflects on Scripture, he can know that it has been answered somehow." I don't think the scriptures promise this at all. Do you know C. S. Lewis' piece on the two teachings in the gospels on prayer?<br /><br />Obviously, I am very interested in this question, and wonder if your post was prompted by the exchange in San Antonio over my paper in 2009. Any comments would be most appreciated, thanks.<br /><br />--Scott DavisonScotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17502474142428329660noreply@blogger.com