Entailment, Contradiction, and Christian Theism

Beall, Jc; DeVito, Michael

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“…14 A similar strategy is employed in response to contradictions stemming from identity claims proper to trinitarian theology. 15 Why shouldn't we adopt a similar strategy when confronted with true contradictions in the Talmud?…”

Section: Theological Motivations For a Glut-theoretic Approachmentioning

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True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud

Hulatt,

Oro Hershtein

2024

Rel. Stud.

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In this article, we consider the presence of what appear to be true contradictions in the Talmud. We consider and reject a glut-theoretic response. We argue these apparently contradictory Talmudic passages should be understood not as ordinary propositions, but as being given under an operator. This allows us to understand these rulings as genuinely conflicting, but not genuinely contradictory. We illustrate the broad shape of such a view through consideration of Hans Kelsen's late-period philosophy of law. We also consider and reject responses to this issue given by Rashi, R. Kook, and R. Feinstein. We close by considering why a system of Jewish law which allows for jointly affirmed conflicting propositions is desirable. We claim that if, as Maimonides suggests, the fundamental project of Jewish law is the eradication of idolatry, then the law itself should remind us that God's ways are higher than our ways. One way of doing so is to resist capture by a transparent set of principles, by allowing for conflicting rulings to be affirmed. This article does not presuppose familiarity with the Talmudic corpus or Jewish tradition.

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Section: Theological Motivations For a Glut-theoretic Approachmentioning

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True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud

Hulatt,

Oro Hershtein

2024

Rel. Stud.

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“…1 1 Beall and DeVito (2023) provides a helpful catalogue of other contradictions in Christian doctrines. See also Beall (2021) and Beall and Cotnoir (2017).…”

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Logical Pluralism and Paradoxical Assertions in the Philosophy of Religion

Friedman‐Biglin,

Vaidya

2023

Philosophy Compass

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Many authors show how useful logic can be as a tool for building theories that can account for problems in the philosophy of religion, such as paradoxical assertions. As a consequence, one's philosophy of logic is crucial as well, since it determines which logics, from the set of available and constructible logics, one can use to build a theory. In this paper, we present the relatively recent debate between logical pluralism and monism because the positions in this debate determine which logic(s) can, with justification, be applied to build a theory that addresses problems in the philosophy of religion. We begin by presenting the problem of paradoxical assertions and the debate over logical pluralism that bears on the addressing paradoxical assertions. We then canvass strategies for arguing in favor of logical monism, and pluralism; ultimately, we conclude that the Western tradition has reached a stalemate on this issue. We then turn our attention to the potential for Indian religious traditions to contribute to the debate. We present the five‐step‐syllogism from Nyāya‐Hindu philosophy, the four corners of reasoning from Buddhist philosophy, and the seven‐fold theory of predication from Jaina philosophy. The upshot of our presentation is to lay the groundwork for cross‐traditional logical debate by identifying the ways in which Indian discussions of debate and dialogue relate to modern approaches to logic and the philosophy of logic.

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Analytic patristics

Rojek

2024

Stud East Eur Thought

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Georges Florovsky, in 1936, called for a revival of the teaching of the Church Fathers. At the same time, Fr. Joseph Bocheński formulated the program for the renewal of Thomism by means of formal logic. In this paper, I propose to integrate these two projects. Analytic Patristics aims at expressing and developing patristic thought with the tools of analytic philosophy. The broad program of the logic of religion formulated by Bocheński included semiotics, methodology, and the formal logic of religion. I present here three examples of the integration of analytic philosophy and patristics in these three areas. I discuss first Basil Lourié’s paraconsistent interpretation of Dionysius the Areopagite’s theory of the divine names, then Richard Swinburne’s efforts to revive Orthodox natural theology, and finally Beau Branson’s reconstruction of Gregory of Nyssa’s metaphysics of the Trinity. These examples perfectly illustrate how analytic philosophy can contribute to the development of patristics, and how the tradition of the Church Fathers can inspire contemporary analytic philosophy of religion.

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Entailment, Contradiction, and Christian Theism

Cited by 4 publications

References 43 publications

True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud

True ‘contradictions’ and conflicts in the Talmud

Logical Pluralism and Paradoxical Assertions in the Philosophy of Religion

Analytic patristics

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