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Category Archives: Harmonic Triads
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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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.
But let’s begin in the field of ethics… Continue reading
On the impossibility of knowing a true tenseless fact without omnitemporality
TIME Q Posted on Equip / Reasonable Faith (also submitted as a question of the week) (Facebook discussion below) I recently took the Equip course on God‘s relationship to time and eternity. It was a great supplement to Dr. Craig’s … Continue reading
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Elaborating on C Theory
“The end is hypothetical while you are advancing towards or falling away from it. The end is hyperthetical once you have reached it.” (C Theory and the Venn of Import) That was END. Now let’s talk about NOW, relative to … Continue reading
C Theory of Time & the Venn of Import
First, an introduction of C Theory and the Venn of Import, then an explanation of how C Theory is distinct from and resolves conflicts arising from A and B theories, using the Venn (or Harmonic Triad) of Import. This is … Continue reading
Towards a JTB Ought-Is-Value Litmus
This is where I am at–work in progress: LITMUS KEY: [define the three imports] J (justified): OUGHT/ACT/DO: Ethico-existential (epistemic) import; Aristotle’s efficient cause. T (true): IS/FACT/BE: Ontologico-material (scientific/metaphysical) import; Aristotle’s material cause. B (belief): VALUE/-ATE/END: Hypo-/hyper-thetico-essential (aesthetic/teleological) import; Aristotle’s formal … Continue reading
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