Hylemorphism, rigid designators, and the disembodied ‘Jesus’: a call for clarification

Turner, James T.

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“…According to Kripke [15], names are rigid designators; therefore, the meaning of a name is fixed and independent of any specific description or property of the individual. With this definition, it can be said that Christ, as a rigid designator, has the same fixed meaning as the name Jesus when it is known that these two names refer to the same person (compare [16,17]). This meaning, or the object of reference, could be Jesus or another figure, such as the Messiah or the Savior.…”

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Towards Analysis of Biblical Entities and Names using Deep Learning

Martinjak¹,

Lauc²,

Skelac³

2023

IJACSA

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Scholars from various fields have studied the translations of the Bible in different languages to understand the changes that have occurred over time. Taking into account recent advances in deep learning, there is an opportunity to improve the understanding of these texts and conduct analyses that were previously unattainable. This study used deep learning techniques of NLP to analyze the distribution and appearance of names in the Polish, Croatian, and English translations of the Gospel of Mark. Within the scope of social network analysis (SNA), various centrality metrics were used to determine the importance of different entities (names) within the gospel. Degree Centrality, Closeness Centrality, and Betweenness Centrality were leveraged, given their capacity to provide unique insights into the network structure. The findings of this study demonstrate that deep learning could help uncover interesting connections between individuals who may have initially been considered less important. It also highlighted the critical role of onomastic sciences and the philosophy of language in analyzing the richness and importance of human and other proper names in biblical texts. Further research should be conducted to produce more relevant language resources, improve parallel multilingual corpora and annotated data sets for the major languages of the Bible, and develop an accurate end-to-end deep neural model that facilitates joint entity recognition and resolution.

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Section: B Philosophical Perspectivementioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Analysis of Biblical Entities and Names using Deep Learning

Martinjak¹,

Lauc²,

Skelac³

2023

IJACSA

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The Incarnation

Pawl¹

2020

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The Body in Jesus’ Tomb as a Hylemorphic Puzzle: a Response to Jaeger and Sienkiewicz and an Application for Christological Anthropology

Turner

2021

Perichoresis

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In a recent paper, Andrew Jaeger and Jeremy Sienkiewicz attempt to provide an answer consistent with Thomistic hylemorphism for the following question: what was the ontological status of Christ’s dead body? Answering this question has christological anthropological import: whatever one says about Christ’s dead body, has implications for what one can say about any human’s dead body. Jaeger and Sienkiewicz answer the question this way: that Jesus’ corpse was prime matter lacking a substantial form; that it was existing form-less matter. I argue that their argument for this answer is unsound. I say, given Thomistic hylemorphism, there was no human body in Jesus’s tomb between his death and resurrection. Once I show their argument to be unsound, I provide a christological anthropological upshot: since there was no human body in Christ’s tomb, there are no human bodies in any tomb.

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Hylemorphism, rigid designators, and the disembodied ‘Jesus’: a call for clarification

Cited by 3 publications

References 28 publications

Towards Analysis of Biblical Entities and Names using Deep Learning

Towards Analysis of Biblical Entities and Names using Deep Learning

The Incarnation

The Body in Jesus’ Tomb as a Hylemorphic Puzzle: a Response to Jaeger and Sienkiewicz and an Application for Christological Anthropology

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