{"id":4652,"date":"2011-01-17T11:18:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:18:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/josemarquez.com\/xsml\/?p=4652"},"modified":"2011-01-17T11:18:35","modified_gmt":"2011-01-17T18:18:35","slug":"the-possible-versus-the-probable-in-catholic-philosophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/2011\/01\/17\/the-possible-versus-the-probable-in-catholic-philosophy\/","title":{"rendered":"The possible versus the probable in Catholic philosophy."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let the title fool you, there&#8217;s some really nice, dry writing in the Paranormal Encylopedia. In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paranormal-encyclopedia.com\/b\/bilocation\/\">entry on bilocation<\/a>, the final sentence is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, the position of Catholic philosophers is that although divine intervention could make bilocation possible, these beliefs were most probably the hallucinations or delusions of the delirious and critically ill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Let me paraphrase that juicy tidbit into dialogue:<\/p>\n<p>Claimant: &#8220;I believe I can be in two places at once.&#8221;<br \/>\nCatholic Philosopher: &#8220;My own belief in the supernatural allows for your claim to be possible, but the more probable scenario is that you are crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t let the title fool you, there&#8217;s some really nice, dry writing in the Paranormal Encylopedia. In an entry on bilocation, the final sentence is: &#8220;However, the position of Catholic philosophers is that although divine intervention could make bilocation possible, these beliefs were most probably the hallucinations or delusions of the delirious and critically ill.&#8221;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.josemarquez.com\/etc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}