Jonathan
At 11:42 PM 9/24/97 +0100, Jim Beale wrote:
>At 9:12 PM -0400 9/24/97, Jonathan Robie wrote:
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>>I don't want to beat this into the ground, but for the sake of clarity:
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>I don't either, but given that you say:
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>>1. My working definition of a contradiction is a set of statements that
>>affirm both A and NOT A.
>
>I'm not sure how can you say that:
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>>5. I do not believe that either paradox or contradiction indicate error,
>>nor that formal logic is the only or best avenue to truth.
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>(a) given two statements, one affirming A and the other denying A,
>at the same time and in the same sense, then one of those statements
>is necessarily false. Assuming, as we must, that the author intends
>to assert the truth of both, then he surely must be mistaken on one
>count. This is surely an indication of error!
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>(b) Logic is not properly an avenue to truth, that is the function of
>revelation. Logic or coherence is a test for falsehood. Two propositions
>may not contradict, but both be false. They may be contrary in which
>case one or both are false. Or they may be contradictories, in which
>case exactly one is false. Logic won't tell _which_ is false though
>so it is not properly an avenue to truth.
>
>(c) Jesus is the Logos. If you look that up in LSJ, you will notice
>that all of the definitions are related to rationality. I think the
>point is that God is wholly coherent and wholly rational. His Word,
>then, cannot be thought to be anything less than wholly rational,
>whether we happen to understand it or not.
>
>EIRHNH,
>Jim
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