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Tag Archives: Logic
Logic Matters
The present post is a follow-up to my post of September 23, 2020, “Alfred Tarski on the Benefits of the Knowledge of Logic. A Timely Reminder.” In the post I presented a passage written by the logician, Alfred Tarki, spelling … Continue reading
Alfred Tarski on the Benefits of the Knowledge of Logic. A Timely Reminder
The specifics of the problems facing the world and most occupying the mind of the great logician, Alfred Tarski, some 80 years ago, were certainly different from those now facing the United States of America and occupying our minds. Despite … Continue reading
Logical Errors in a Logic Textbook, Alas!
1. Early on in his Socratic Logic, Peter Kreeft offers what I’ll take to be two arguments in favor of a thesis that traditional, or Aristotelian, logic is superior to modern, or symbolic or mathematical, logic, that, indeed, modern logic … Continue reading
First Thoughts on the First Principles
1. As I noted in the immediately previous post, (1) the coming semester will seem me teaching an “Introduction to Philosophy” course and (2) at least some, if not most, of the posts to come as the semester unfolds will … Continue reading
Posted in First Principles
Tagged Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell's Religion and Philosophy, First Principles, Introduction to Philosophy, Logic, Peter Kreeft, Peter Kreeft's Socrates Meets Jesus, Plato, Plato's Apology, Principle of Excluded Middle, Principle of Non-Contradiction, Socrates
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Making Sense of Ontological Irrationalism
In his November 17, 2016, post on Siris, “Implying Bottom,”* Brandon Watson casts a critical eye on a paragraph contained in an article by Stephen Maitzen, “The Problem of Magic.”** The two then, in the Comments section, engage in nicely … Continue reading
Posted in Logic, Ontology
Tagged Bernard Lonergan, Brandon Watson’s Siris, Existence of God, Law of Excluded Middle, Law of Non-Contradiction, Laws of Logic, Logic, Ontological Irrationalism, Ontology, Stephen Maitzen’s “The Problem of Magic.”, Theism, Theistic Explanation of the Laws of Logic, Thesis of Particular Contradiction, Thesis of Universal Contradiction
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The Maverick and the Philosopher
0. I have long been puzzled by the difference between the two kinds of posts one sees published on the blog, Maverick Philosopher. One kind, one of the latest members of which is his post of December 31, 2014, “John … Continue reading
Logic and Public Discourse: Something of a Minor Case Study
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
The Commanding Position of Theology over “All Other Modes of Knowledge” in “Radical Orthodoxy” and Thomas Aquinas
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
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Why Logic, Briefly Illustrated
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
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Aquinas on the First Principles 1
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.) Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself” 0. This post is the fourth in a series dedicated to a sustained reading of and commentary upon Thomas … Continue reading →