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Category Archives: Logic

Linkage: Impossible World Site and Blog (Dale)

Impossibly beautiful. Literally. (image credit)
Check it out: a whole site and blog devoted to art featuring impossible objects!
I can’t help but think that the picture above had a trinitarian inspiration: according to the babelfish, it means “You must in such a way live”. (German speaking readers - feel free to correct the translation.) I read [...]

¶ Posted 26 March 2008 † Dale § Art § Mystery § Philosophy ‡ Comments (0) °

perfection, the Trinity, and impossible beings (Dale)

“This clears it all up, right?”
Anselm: “Um, no. I must bestow upon it the analytic frown of uncomprehension.”
(image credit)

I used to think I had a great objection to Anselm’s famous ontological argument. (Bear with me - this has something to do with social trinitarianism.) The argument, at least many forms of it, basically goes like [...]

¶ Posted 27 February 2008 † Dale § Philosophy § Theories ‡ Comments (14) °

Leftow 3: “A Latin Trinity” - Part 2

Last time, we saw the set-up from Leftow. He’s aiming at orthodoxy, which to him means theorizing in the tradition of the great medieval Latin-speaking theologians. He’s spent a good amount of ink defending the consistency of supposing that a person might travel back to the past, so that she, as it were, acts together [...]

¶ Posted 08 December 2006 † Dale § Heresy & Orthodoxy § Modalism § Philosophy § Theories ‡ Comments (2) °

Diagram: Shield of Faith

How many times have you seen one of these offered as an explanation or illustration of the doctrine of the Trinity?

There’s a really neat article about these here, complete with some links to real medieval examples. Basically, this sort of Shield of Faith (Latin: scutum fidei) diagram seems to have originated in the [...]

¶ Posted 28 June 2006 † Dale § Art § Complaints § Linkage ‡ Comments (6) °

Identity

Identity is a unique and interesting relation. To understand what modalism is, and in some cases to follow what philosophers who discuss the Trinity are getting so excited about, one needs to be clear about the concept of identity. What follows is a quick primer…