Many times when we get a Box statement, we are getting it for a domain; if we do not keep track of the domain, we may confuse the relevant strong modality and absolute necessity.
Pr 25:2 and royal munus
Vengefulness is a kind of madness.
just taste : union of internal senses :: character : union of virtues
"Poetry is a complication of beauties, reflecting by their union additional lustre on one another. The sublime, the new, the elegant, the natural, the virtuous, are often blended in the imitation; brightened by the power of fiction, and the richest variety of imagery, and rendered more delightful by the harmony of numbers." Gerard
"As one *science*, by supplying illustrations, makes another better *understood*; so one *art*, by throwing lustre on another, makes it more exquisitely *relished*."
union of internal senses, sensibility of heart, accuracy of perception
'This is my body' as a divine exercitive
Mittamus lignum in panem (Jer 11:19 Vulg).
res : eucharist :: person : Incarnation
In arguing against transubstantiation, Vermigli argues against a certain kind of perspicuity of Scripture.
The human body is an inhering sign of the person.
"A monstrosity belongs to a class contrary to nature not in its entirety but only to nature in the generality of cases." Aristotle
pooling a soupy mixture of suggestions and conjectures until something definite crystallizes
Many of the things we associate with technology are associated not so much with the technology itself but with the scale at which we use it.
ruling out defective causes in experimental reasoning
impeding vs misdirecting defective causes
beauty as a kind of authority
Prudence gives judiciousness to the cultivation of taste.
A community is always something beyond our experience that enters into our experience in a way that draws *us* into *it*.
Human beings give to pets something analogous to grace -- we lift up our pets so that they can participate in their own way in human lives.
On Aquinas's account of transubstantiation, it is an expressino of God as actus infinitus.
"All is given to the church so that the church may return it to the Word." Jean-Luc Marion
God as Agent Future in the eucharist
The Eucharist as memorial is not merely a remembering but a memorial before the Lord.
As change occurs, the microstate tends to become less predictable from the macrostate. -- Think about this.
Scripture is not merely read but co-read.
Wisdom is the intellect most fully commensurate with being.
Freedom is intrinsically a means and always a sign of something higher than itself.
People often need others to ask them to do things in order to have clear evidence of their own value.
Objections to a position become its glory when by their repeated failures they manifest its likeness to truth.
Every number can be treated as a shifted zero.
The Loomis Method structures drawing on the model of clay-sculpting.
The face gives us more information relevant to practical action than literally anything else in our sensory experience.
'Marginalized' is a not a category of person.
the Church as that in which the history of Christ is recorded
As the Body of Christ, the Church is the principle of spiritual instrumentalization of the things of the world.
A memorial (zikkaron) in the Old Testament is a manifestation by sign of ongoing presence.
"...God has promised himself in order to give human beings a pattern by which they can praise him in a seemly fashion." Augustine (Exp. in Ps 144 (145))
Intentionalism is the most natural way to read anything; it recurs spontaneously and it is always clearly where most people start. Other forms of interpretation are modifications of it for particular ends.
2 Macc 14:35 -- A temple for your tent-building (skenosis) -- cp. Jn 1:14
Wisdom is associated with beginnings and sources.
adikia as rooted in not glorifying God as God (Rm 1:18, 21)
lovingkindness : wrath :: mercy : justice
-- NB in Hos 12:6, Ps 33:5, that pairs lovingkindness and justice; cp also Neh 9:17, linked to mercy and slowness to anger
-- lovingkindess is also often linked with truth
When people talk about epic fantasy, they sometimes mean fantasy structured by at least some epic conventions and sometimes instead fantasy in which worldbuilding itself plays an essential role in the story.
When someone says both A and B, and they appear to conflict, the actual relation between the two may be
(1) contradictory
(2) inexplicable, e.g., if they aren't sufficiently thought through to have an identifiable relation
(3) consistent under closer logical analysis
(4) consistent under closer contextual analysis, when circumstances are specified
(5) consistent under a more appropriate interpretive method.
assuming for the sake of argument & dialectical fictions
Scientific investigation is always difficult and usually doesn't suceed very well. But the successes it does have are sometimes considerably valuable.
In matters of free speech, people tend to think others should be allowed to speak but they themselves deserve to speak, the asymmetry runs through a great many discussions.
the culture of the temporary
Half of problem-solving is just shifting perspectives to find a better one.
field as function of space and time associated with an equation of motion (describing change over time)
Much of learning is coming to understand less stupidly.
Every axiom, theory, or theorem of physics that has ever had success in solving problems becomes a possible postulate for physicists solving problems, for the rest of time, regardless of its precise status with respect to truth.
The sacred, by nature, is many-leveled in its manifestations.
Because we have obligations we do not choose, we have rights for which we do not have to beg.
Actual hierarchies, rather than schemes in people's heads, tend to be fairly flexible.
Minor repair plays a much more important role in civilization than generally appreciated.
Prudence can imitate prudence and art can imitate art, although only in such ways as are appropriate to itself.
Pedagogy creates canons as a byproduct.
Every serious account of development of doctrine is also an account of the degradation or deterioration of doctrine.
intuition as evidence vs. intuition as sense of evidence
Being, as Kant understands it, is the commensurate object of positing.
We posit things as possible-for-something.
Positive law does not propagate instantaneously; it ripples out through intermediating channels.
Law piggybacks on reason.
Most of sacred scripture's influence is subtle, and much of it is indrect. Protestants sometimes make the mistake of assuming that perspicuity means that the effects and benefits, rather than the core meaning, are clear, but in fact we often do not trace Scripture's effects and benefits until long afterward, and there is evidence enough that we do not fully understand them all.
Our bodies have meanings for us that are not made by any human mind.
yin/yang and the nonseparateness of things
Every sacrament is an exemplate of Christ.
"If divinity alone stood forth on behalf of sinners, the devil would have been conquered not so much by reason as by power. On the other hand, if mortal nature alone pleaded the cause of the fallen, it would not be divested of its condition nor free of its race." Leo
Jesus' history associates him with multiple states of Jewry: Judean, Galilean, Egyption diaspora.
Shantarakshita's objecgtion to the Nyayaikas on enduring selves runs into the problem that receptacles aren't only used to restrain things from moving.
metaphysical noncontradiction -> logical noncontradiction
- (under mental conditionality / proper functioning) -> doxastic noncontradiction
- (under social conditionality / proper functioning) -> linguistic/communicative noncontradiction
- (under social conditionality / proper functioning) -> legal/directive noncontradiction
assertoric modality -- 'it is said that', 'X says that', 'according to X', etc.
-- fictional modalities are plausibly assertoric modalities
the importance of a rich ecology of arguments
Life shifts what possibilities are available.
Christ's unique mediation does not exclude the mediations of prophet or apostle or evangelist.
Freedom is a deontic power.
