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Monthly Archives: February 2018
Sathya Sai Baba. The Man Who Was God
0. Reading today’s (February 20, 2018) post by James Chastek, “Sathya Sai Baba as Atheist argument trope,” in the blog, Just Thomism, I became aware of Sathya Sai Baba for the first time. This was perhaps a bit late, for … Continue reading
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Tagged After Aristotle, ames Chastek, Christian Doctrine, God, James Chastek’s Just Thomism, Jesus, Modus Ponens, Modus Tollens, Principle of the Indiscernibility of Identicals, Principle of the Symmetry of Identity, Principle of the Transitivity of Identity, Richard Hennessey, Sathya Sai Baba, The Man as God Thesis, Time (Online Magazine), Trinitarian Doctrine
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A Diagram of the Trinity
Today my eyes fell on a diagram, the Scutum Fidei or “Shield of Faith,” the purpose of which is to set forth the relationships which classical Christianity believes to exist between and among the three persons of the Trinity, God … Continue reading
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Tagged After Aristotle, Demonstrative Arguments, Richard Hennessey, Sound Arguments, Trinity, Valid Arguments
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Conceiving of Exceptions to the First Principles
1. In my immediately previous post, the “First Thoughts on the First Principles” of January 19, 2018, I offered statements of the principles, of non-contradiction and excluded middle, recognized as “first principles” by classical philosophical thought. I further pointed to … Continue reading
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Tagged After Aristotle, First Principles, God, Irrationalism, Negation, Negation of the Principle of Excluded Middle, Negation of the Principle of Non-contradiction, Obverse, Particular Affirmative Proposition, Particular Negative Proposition, Peter Kreeft, Peter Kreeft's Socrates Meets Jesus, Principle of Excluded Middle, Principle of Non-Contradiction, Rationalism, Richard Hennessey, Trinity, Universal Affirmative Proposition, Universal Negative Proposition, Universalist Irrationalism
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