{"id":1447,"date":"2010-02-04T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=1447"},"modified":"2015-01-24T08:44:36","modified_gmt":"2015-01-24T13:44:36","slug":"linkage-vallicella-and-lukas-on-supposita-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-vallicella-and-lukas-on-supposita-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage: Vallicella and Lukas on Supposita"},"content":{"rendered":"
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No, suppositUM – settle down, kitty!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thanks to Vlastimil Voh\u00e1nka for referring us to this discussion<\/a><\/strong> between Maverick Philosopher Bill Vallicella and Dr. Lukas Novak of Charles University, Prague.<\/p>\n

As I understand it, a suppositum<\/em> is supposed to be an ultimate<\/em> subject of characteristics<\/strong> \/ properties, as distinct from non-ultimate subjects. My individual human nature is supposed to be suppositum, but Christ’s is not.<\/p>\n

One ought to be a little<\/em> suspicious of this supposita theory, as apparently it was originally formulated just to deal with Incarnation difficulties, that is, to come up with a coherent reading of the creed of Chalcedon. Apart from this, apparently it’s hard to come up with any metaphysical work for this theory to do.<\/p>\n

I confess that I don’t understand<\/strong> how this concept is being applied to come up with a consistent Trinity theory. Should I add a section to the entry?<\/p>\n

Dr. Novak says,<\/p>\n

Regarding my place in the classification of trinitarian theories in the SEP: frankly, it seems to me that the traditional orthodox position (which I hope I maintain :-)) is not listed. It is located somewhere under the “Latin trinitarianism”, but none of the modern attempts to capture it seems to do justice to it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think<\/em>, based on what he says in that comment<\/a>, he’s what I call a negative mysterian<\/strong>, although with some more metaphysical speculations added than the ancient “fathers” thought possible or advisable. As I think of it, mysterianism comes in both kinds and degrees, and is usually combined with another, apparently more positive Trinity theory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanks to Vlastimil Voh\u00e1nka for referring us to this discussion between Maverick Philosopher Bill Vallicella and Dr. Lukas Novak of Charles University, Prague. As I understand it, a suppositum is supposed to be an ultimate subject of characteristics \/ properties, as distinct from non-ultimate subjects. My individual human nature is supposed to be suppositum, but… Read More »Linkage: Vallicella and Lukas on Supposita<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1447"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34622,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1447\/revisions\/34622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}