Hell and Vagueness

Faith and Philosophy 19 (1):58--68 (2002)
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A certain conception of Hell is inconsistent with God's traditional attributes. My argument is novel in focusing on considerations involving vagueness. God is in charge of the selection procedure, so the selection procedure must be just; any just procedure will have borderline cases; but according to the traditional conception, the afterlife is binary and has no borderline cases.

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10.5840/faithphil20021918

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