Aug
10
Ignoratio elenchi
August 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment
That’s a fancy Latin slogan that means, basically, not knowing what the question at issue is when having an argument. I’m reminded of the slogan by an interesting post at Maverick Philosopher on the Israeli-Hezbollah conflict. Bill writes:
Not every armed conflict is a war. The ‘war’ against Hezbollah and other terrorist organizations is more like [...]
Aug
10
The More Things Change…
August 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment
There’s a rather famous essay by Richard Cartwright called “On the Logical Problem of the Trinity” (available online here). In it, Cartwright argues that the doctrine of the Trinity as enunciated in the Athanasian Creed cannot be made sense of using ordinary intuitions about identity and difference, genus and species. The Maverick Philosopher gave the [...]
