{"id":344,"date":"2008-06-05T02:38:25","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T02:38:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=344"},"modified":"2020-12-07T16:16:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-07T22:16:43","slug":"linkage-alanyzing-trumping-or-the-theologians-fallacy-dale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/linkage-alanyzing-trumping-or-the-theologians-fallacy-dale\/","title":{"rendered":"Linkage: Alanyzing “trumping”, or the “Theologian’s Fallacy”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Don’t you dare do what dastardly Donald does.<\/em><\/small><\/div>\n

Our friend Alan Rhoda, the mighty Alanyzer<\/a>, has some interesting thoughts on what he calls the “Theologian’s Fallacy”<\/strong><\/a>, or “Trumping”.<\/p>\n

I see his point, though I don’t like the names <\/strong>(it may be a popular sort of response among theologians, but it’s hardly limited to them.) And it isn’t really a fallacy is it? Isn’t it just a recognizable species of bad behavior – epistemically bad, and perhaps sometimes morally bad as well?<\/p>\n

“Trumping” – not the right word either. He’s talking about a bad habit, a vice – “trumping” is too neutral a term.<\/p>\n

Anyway check out his post<\/a>, and this follow up<\/a><\/strong>. Ideas, and not the names for them, are what matter.<\/p>\n

I see what Alan is on to, though I think some of his critics are right that we need some more analysis<\/span><\/strong> alanyzis<\/strong> of the idea of “trumping”…<\/p>\n

One more quick thought. This accusation of irrational “trumping” makes more sense when there’s a dispute about the proper interpretation of the Bible<\/em>. If the Authority is a pope, you can just ask him, or read him. On some points, creeds are crystal clear. Sometimes, there are few worries about what the Authority says – depends on the Authority which is being appealed to.\u00a0 Of course, one can still ask: why accept that<\/em> as an Authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A fallacy common to theologians?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346,"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":[6,8,9,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-complaints","category-linkage","category-philosophy","category-theologians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344","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=344"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42939,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344\/revisions\/42939"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}