{"id":338,"date":"2008-05-28T10:00:45","date_gmt":"2008-05-28T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=338"},"modified":"2015-03-06T22:13:19","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T03:13:19","slug":"linkage-pruss-on-a-triple-statue-analogy-for-the-trinity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-pruss-on-a-triple-statue-analogy-for-the-trinity\/","title":{"rendered":"Pruss on a triple statue analogy for the Trinity"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_340\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-340\" style=\"width: 231px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-340 size-full\" title=\"dodecahedron1\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dodecahedron1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"231\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dodecahedron1.jpg 231w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/dodecahedron1-90x93.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 231px) 100vw, 231px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-340\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">3 dodecahedron-shaped statues?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<p><strong>The human idea factory <\/strong>(I think he&#8217;ll take that as a compliment \ud83d\ude42 ) has again returned to the Trinity:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/alexanderpruss.blogspot.com\/2008\/05\/another-analogy-for-trinity.html\">Alexander Pruss&#8217;s Blog: Another analogy for the Trinity?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He imagines <strong>a scenario in which three different statues are simultaneously made of the same quantity of material<\/strong>. This scenario, he holds, is logically impossible. Nonetheless, he says: &#8220;This analogy seems to work moderately well as an illustration of the Trinity.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I have a hard time with the idea that contradictory (or seemingly contradictory) illustrations help illuminate the meaning of a consistent and believable claim. But read the whole post and make up your own mind.<\/p>\n<p>I think the bottom line of Alex&#8217;s own view comes at the end: &#8220;I am partial to the view that <strong>something like relative identity<\/strong> holds in the case of God but only the case of God&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>On relative identity, <a title=\"relative identity and the Trinity\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/trinity\/#RelIde\" target=\"_blank\">see this<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human idea factory (I think he&#8217;ll take that as a compliment \ud83d\ude42 ) has again returned to the Trinity: Alexander Pruss&#8217;s Blog: Another analogy for the Trinity? He imagines a scenario in which three different statues are simultaneously made of the same quantity of material. This scenario, he holds, is logically impossible. Nonetheless, he&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-pruss-on-a-triple-statue-analogy-for-the-trinity\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pruss on a triple statue analogy for the Trinity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":340,"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":[8,9,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linkage","category-philosophy","category-theories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338","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=338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35024,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338\/revisions\/35024"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}