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Tag Archives: Transitivity of Identity
Ontological Arithmetic. One Realistic Foot in the Door of the Philosophy of Mathematics
The aim of the present post is three-fold. I wish first to draw attention to the ontological theory of identity, i.e., of existents as identical with existents, and three quite basic principles of the theory. I then wish to then … Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy of Mathematics
Tagged After Aristotle, Apodicticism in Philosophy of Mathematics, Arithmetic, Definition of What It Is to Be Four Existents, Definition of What It Is to Be One Existent, Definition of What It Is to Be Three Existents, Definition of What It Is to Be Two Existents, Identity, Ontological Arithmetic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Reflexivity of Identity, Richard Hennessey, Symmetry of Identity, Transitivity of Identity
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Matthew Wright on Intelligent Aliens
One of my favorite blogs is Matthew Wright’s Matthew Wright. A post illustrating nicely why I enjoy what he writes is the “Are we so arrogant to suppose [intelligent] aliens will be like us?” appearing yesterday. In the present post … Continue reading
Posted in Alien Intelligence, Intelligence
Tagged Alien Intelligence, Intelligence, Matthew Wright, Particular Affirmative Propositions, Particular Negative Propositions, Reflexivity of Identity, Symmetry of Identity, Transitivity of Identity, Universal Affirmative Propositions, Universal Negative Propositions
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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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After Aristotle 
Garrigou-Lagrange on Trinity and Triple Identity
0. Introduction. In “The Inconsistency of the Doctrine of (the Distinction of Divine Persons and so That of) the Trinity with Monotheism,” my post of April 4, 2014, I presented what I take to be a rigorous proof of, as its … Continue reading →