December 26, 2007
Aristotle and Transubstantiation (Some More)
Tim Troutman (formerly known as "The God Fearin' Fiddler") of
The God Fearin' Forum has
responded to my
latest discussion of Eucharistic theology and Aristotle. Perhaps I have not been very clear. Whatever the case, Tim persistently misunderstands both my claim and my argument for it. I am going to try to make what I am claiming very clear here:
The doctrine of transubstantiation, as expounded by Trent, is rendered incoherent by any system of metaphysics sufficiently different from Aristotle's.
This should not be confused with any of the following claims, which I do
not make...
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Topic(s):
Aristotle
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Augustine
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Church Dogmatics
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Divine Revelation
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Historical Thinkers
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Metaphysics
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Philosophy
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Philosophy of Religion
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Plato
,
Roman Catholic Church
,
The Church
,
The Eucharist
,
Theology
,
Thomas Aquinas
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December 22, 2007
Ron Paul Moves to Save Liberty Dollar (Sort of)
So, I've been rather busy and slow in covering recent developments related to federal government action against the Liberty Dollar. Some of you may have seen news coverage related to the seizure of the Liberty Dollar organization's assets. The news media mostly focused on the fact that the raid occurred when the office was full of Ron Paul dollars. The media coverage was pretty incomplete. Here is a more complete timeline of what has occurred to date: 1998 NORFED (the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve and the IRS) is founded, and begins offering "liberty dollars", a...
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December 12, 2007
What is a Probability?
There is always a more fundamental question. Kenny Easwaran at
Antimetea has written a
response to my post
What Does Bayesian Epistemology Have to Do With Probabilities? In his post, he raises the question, just what
is a probability? I want to take a look at my own assumptions about what a probability is, and what he has to say, and see if this has any relevance for our discussion of Bayesian epistemology.
I will not attempt here to develop a philosophy of probability, like Bayesianism, or frequentism, or anything of that sort. These are accounts of what probabilities
mean, but not of what probabilities
are...
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December 3, 2007
Cincinnatus for President!
An
op-ed in today's
New York Times bemoans the fact that none of the leading presidential candidates read Latin. (Well, Giuliani apparently studied it briefly in his Catholic high school.) In all of US history, there have only been 9 presidents who have not studied Latin. Apparently James Garfield even
taught both Greek and Latin at the college level before becoming president. Even George W. Bush has a moderately extensive background in Latin. This marks a shift not only in our education system, but in our political system: whereas it was once the case that many (at the beginning of US history, all) of our politicians...
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December 1, 2007
Is Ron Paul a Racist?
I have said before that while I am
not without reservations about Ron Paul, I think that he is far and away the best candidate to enter the race so far. What was previously my principle reservation has, in fact, been answered by the campaign. This
letter to the editor of the National Review, written by Ron Paul's communications director, Jesse Benton, is the second source I have seen that answered my concern directly...
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