Tag: logic
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Onion Rules, and Acceptable Group Generalizations
I have rules about onions. Usually I just say “I don’t like onions.” So, when I order food in restaurants – when I don’t forget that I have to say something about it, and just expect people to read my mind, which still happens sometimes, despite my age and experience – I ask for “no […]
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Fear, Logic, and Hiccups
Patten, Bernard M. Truth, Knowledge, or Just Plain Bull: How to Tell the Difference. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books, 2004. [An installment of the “Read Me” Project.] I have a history with this book. I read it once before, about 10 years ago, at least part-way through, while sitting in the surgery waiting room of […]
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Christian Doctrine (3)
Chapter 3 of Christian Doctrine focuses on the doctrine of “general revelation” – the idea that God is or can be known “by the light of nature and the works of creation” (Westminster Confession, 1.1). Guthrie presents the following summary arguments – things people have offered/frequently offer in favor of the doctrine of general revelation: […]
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B(ook of Order F-3.010)4 Truth
I am studying for a test on Presbyterian Polity that is coming up in about a week, which explains why I was reading the Book of Order and ran across this “Historic Principle of Church Order” (F-3.01): Truth and Goodness That truth is in order to goodness, and the great touchstone of truth, its tendency […]
Matters of Interpretation 