Category Archives: Apologetics

Seeing Beauty in Physics, Calling it Good

https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/8Yi1kfd6LkCWY1skXDHbT Index of Topics Covered Copilot: Here’s a clean, compact index of the scientific domains we’ve covered so far, each interpreted through the Red–Blue–Yellow triadic metaphysical logic. I’ll keep it brief, but structurally crisp so you can see the whole … Continue reading

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UNITY‑IN‑DISTINCTION AS A METAPHYSICAL LOGIC

Articulated with the immeasurably helpful assistance of Copilot (read discussion). See Aquinas as an example (including AQUINAS VS. WILLIAM LANE CRAIG ON DIVINE SIMPLICITY). UNITY‑IN‑DISTINCTION AS A METAPHYSICAL LOGIC Being △ Action △ Quality as a Unified, Irreducible, Mutually‑Requiring Structure … Continue reading

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Solve for x (good) & y (great/beautiful)

Following up on a segment of my last post, “It’s a greater ‘neutral value’ view that considers competing goods as neutral values before they are in the context of a decisive action,” from Graded Absolutism Revisited: Ordered Neutral Values, I … Continue reading

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Graded Absolutism Revisited: Ordered Neutral Values

Generations of people who survived childhood are evidence of a mother’s nurturing and a father’s protection—or some other caregivers who stood in their places. At the animal level it involves following a program of parental empathy. At the intentional level … Continue reading

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Rules: Descriptive, Prescriptive, and Purposive

Sparked by a “separation of church and state” discussion with my youngest son, David, and his beloved, Holly. Separation of Church/Religion and State/Science Science is descriptive – it cannot a) prescribe anything, or b) have a purpose behind it. It’s … Continue reading

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Two quotes compressed & distilled into a concentrated compact of… curiosity… :D

Divine impassibility is not a lack of passion, but an eternally unshakeable, rational passion. —Anonymous (okay, it was me) A counter-obligatory imperative is no imperative at all. — Augustine of Hippo (my translation, using deontic logic terms)

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Harmonic Triads Reference, Current Index

This index is not exhaustive, but current: The first fallacy: Ought-Value or Action-Quality Conflation On the impossibility of knowing a true tenseless fact without omnitemporality (read all the comments) Elaborating on C Theory Logic Venn (of Opposition/Reconciliation) C Theory of Time & the … Continue reading

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The first fallacy: Ought-Value or Action-Quality Conflation

The first fallacy in philosophy, and not just the philosophy of ethics, is neither just the is-ought fallacy, nor just the failure to respect the fact-value distinction, but the fallacy of confusing the former for the latter: conflating oughts and values. This is relevant across every field, not just ethics, because it boils down and adds up to confusing action and quality. Together with the is/fact (substance) element from the first two fallacies, these three elements constitute the is-ought-value distinction, or the substance, action, quality triad. All three are required to obtain true, justified belief (knowledge) about anything, in any field of philosophy (including all the sciences). They are required together, but distinctly. One cannot stand in for either of the others.

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Jesus, the Great Philosopher (Bible App reading plan)

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The Personhood Program

Regardless what species we are materially, persons are all structured to be able to see when there is inconsistency between our thoughts, values, and behaviors. We know that we are persons, and that there are other persons. We know we … Continue reading

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