Monthly Archives: April 2014

Logic and Public Discourse: Something of a Minor Case Study

Posted on April 30, 2014 by Rchard E. Hennessey

0. I have just had the pleasure of reading an article in Crisis Magazine, the “Logic: What’s Missing from Public Discourse” of April 30, 2014, by Randall B. Smith, a professor of theology and the holder of the Scanlan Foundation … Continue reading →

Posted in Logic, Public Discourse | Tagged Crisis Magazine, John Stewart, Logic, Public Discourse, Randall B. Smith, Sean Hannity, Stephen Colbert, Universal Propositions | Leave a comment

The Commanding Position of Theology over “All Other Modes of Knowledge” in “Radical Orthodoxy” and Thomas Aquinas

Posted on April 17, 2014 by Rchard E. Hennessey

In his April 1, 2014, post on the blog, Against the Grain, “Mulcahy on Milbank,” Christopher Blosser quotes the following passage from Bernard Mulcahy, Aquinas’s Notion of Pure Nature and the Christian Integralism of Henri de Lubac (New York: Peter Lane … Continue reading →

Posted in Theology | Tagged Aristotelianism, Bernard Mulcahy, Christopher Blosser, John Milbank, Logic, Ontology, Principle of Identity, Principle of Triple Identity, Radical Orthodoxy, Reflexivity of Identity, Roman Catholic Thought, Theology, Thesis of Monotheism, Thesis of the Trinity of Divine Persons, Thomas Aquinas, Thomas Aquinas's Summa Theologiae, Transitivity of Identity | Leave a comment

Universal Propositions and “Existential Import”

Posted on April 13, 2014 by Rchard E. Hennessey

Introduction. In a note (25, p. 171) in Christopher Shields’ quite admirable overview, Aristotle (2nd edition; London and New York: Routledge, 2014), we find the following passage, setting forth (Ibid., p. 143) the “three simple and, he [Aristotle] thinks, intuitively … Continue reading →

Posted in Aristotelian Logic, Logic, Modern Logic | Tagged Aristotelian Logic, Christopher Shields' Aristotle, Conversion, Copi’s Introduction to Logic, Epistemology, Existential Import, Henry Babcock Veatch's Intentional Logic, Henry Babcock Veatch's Two Logics, Modern Logic, Ontology, Particular Affirmative Propositions, Philosophical Anthropology, Propositions, Reductio ad Absurdum, Universal Affirmative Propositions, Universal Negative Propositions, WordPress | Leave a comment

Why Logic, Briefly Illustrated

Posted on April 7, 2014 by Rchard E. Hennessey

It has occurred to me that some might question why, in my immediately previous post, the “The Inconsistency of the Doctrine of (the Distinction of Divine Persons and so That of) the Trinity with Monotheism” of April 4, 2014, I went … Continue reading →

Posted in Logic | Tagged Fallacy of the Denial of the Antecedent, Logic, Mind, Modus Ponens, Owen Flanagan, Owen Flanagan's The Problem of the Soul, Science, Soul, Soundness, Validity | 4 Comments

The Inconsistency of the Doctrine of (the Distinction of Divine Persons and so That of) the Trinity with Monotheism

Posted on April 4, 2014 by Rchard E. Hennessey

Introduction. In my immediately previous post, the “Thomas Aquinas: Beyond Aristotle’s Aristotelian Conception of the Numerical” of April 1, 2014, the discussion of Thomas Aquinas’s understanding that numerical or arithmetical terms such as “three” have application to non-physical reality quite naturally … Continue reading →

Posted in Philosophy of Religion | Tagged Christianity, Commutation, Conjunction, Contradiction, Divine Persons, Dr. Meghan Sullivan, Existential Instantiation, First Things, God, God the Father, God the Son, Islam, Judaism, Logic, Modus Ponens, Monotheism, Reductio ad Absurdum, Simplification, Symmetry of Identity, Thomas Aquinas, Transitivity of Identity, Trinity, Triple Identity, Universal Instantiation | 7 Comments

Thomas Aquinas: Beyond Aristotle’s Aristotelian Conception of the Numerical

Posted on April 1, 2014 by Rchard E. Hennessey

1. In the first lecture of his Commentary on Aristotle’s Physics* and in the course of an effort at distinguishing the science of physics from those of mathematics and metaphysics, Thomas Aquinas presents the well-known (at least within Aristotelian circles) … Continue reading →

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Monthly Archives: April 2014

Logic and Public Discourse: Something of a Minor Case Study

The Commanding Position of Theology over “All Other Modes of Knowledge” in “Radical Orthodoxy” and Thomas Aquinas

Universal Propositions and “Existential Import”

Why Logic, Briefly Illustrated

The Inconsistency of the Doctrine of (the Distinction of Divine Persons and so That of) the Trinity with Monotheism

Thomas Aquinas: Beyond Aristotle’s Aristotelian Conception of the Numerical

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