Category Archives: Apologetics

Barcan, Buridan & Copilot walk into a ≡…

Here’s one for the logic nerds. Background of the Schemata: Barcan | Converse Barcan Buridan | Converse Buridan This Venn is a different way of presenting them, and there is a modified Barcan & Converse below it to show it … Continue reading

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New (corrected) variation of the existential import rule and existential fallacy:

“Existence (existential import, non-emptiness) is required —but not presumed— of any extended/distributed term, whether or not the property predicated of it is predicated positively or negatively. Lack of existential import (emptiness) of any such term renders the proposition containing it … Continue reading

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Logic Venn of Opposition

So far I’ve only linked to my work-in-progress Logic Venn of Opposition within at least one blog post on this blog—it has never stood in its own blog post. I’m at a point I’m ready to share it. Still a … Continue reading

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The Knowledge Triad

This is an example of every node of a harmonic triad also being triadic.

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The Three Questions

The Three Fundamental/Essential Questions Two more versions of the same set of questions: “Why is there something rather than nothing?”  “Is change an illusion?” // Can people change? “What is the meaning of life?”  *** What is it? How does it … Continue reading

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Responding to Mortimer J. (Naturally)

If you need a “yellow △ blue △ red” decoder for my comments bracketed into Adler’s below, please use “is/fact △ ought △ value” or “being △ action △ quality” or “formal/material △ final/ought △ formal/final” (going around & around … Continue reading

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Seeing Beauty in Science, Calling it Good

https://copilot.microsoft.com/shares/8Yi1kfd6LkCWY1skXDHbT MORE. (indexed below the following index) Index of Topics Covered in First Link 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, … 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‑Implicating 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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