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Showing posts with label Logic and Model Theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Logic and Model Theory. Show all posts
Friday, January 30, 2026

Sense without Sense?

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Quine, Carnap, and the Persistence of Intelligibility The reflections that follow were occasioned by a recent paper by Lucas Ribeiro Vollet,...
Saturday, April 29, 2023

Model-Theoretic Considerations for Theological Semantics

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I I have for many years been convinced that the theological enterprise cannot survive in our age without affording to its language robust tr...
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Thursday, April 06, 2023

Extensionality, Description and the Question of Good Works: Towards An Anomalous Monergism?

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  The great American philosopher Donald Davidson (1917-2003) wrote the following about causality: The salient point that emerges so far is t...
Sunday, March 19, 2023

On Rabbits and Christology

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The philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine schooled us on the indeterminacy of translation using the example of a tribesman speaking the unknow...
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Monday, May 09, 2022

Luther and Heidegger: Modeling the Destruction of Metaphysics

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The International Luther Congress beckons this summer and I am thinking about doing something on Luther and Heidegger in the seminar on Luth...
Saturday, March 30, 2019

Getting Outside the World

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Once I came to understand Heidegger's account of "world" and "the world-ing of the world" in Sein und Zeit , I have ...
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Sunday, June 12, 2016

Propositional Content, Truth-Conditions and Existential Empowerment

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For a very long time I have puzzled over the relationship within theology among the notions of syntax, semantics and existential empowermen...
Sunday, February 22, 2015

Model-Theoretic Semantics and Theology

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All too often we unthinkingly assume a "magical" view of language.   We naturally suppose that our language is anchored to the wo...