This begins the notebook started in June 2023.
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"When Men are scattered into different places, and fixed at a distance from each other, it would be a foolish Labour to gather all the Provision into one Heap, and to distribute it out of the common Mass." Pufendorf
"Love is to be valued because it enhances all the best pleasures, such as music, and sunrise in mountains, and the sea under full moon. A man who has not enjoyed beautiful things in the company of a woman whom he loved has not experienced to the full the magic power of which such things are capable." Bertrand Russell
The act of imputation always occurs within a general plan or system of actions. Imputability may pre-exist, but actual imputing is ordered to an end.
Bruni's three principles of a republic: libertas, aequalitas, ius.
What is most important in the sacraments is not our receiving but Christ's doing.
seminal causation // objective causation
seminal reasons as 'signs' of possibilities
The heart of Christianity always lies beyond and behind what can directly be experienced. This is the life of faith.
"In vain are we called Christians if we do not imitate Christ." Leo (Sermon 25)
Because they are relatively comprehensive, people often use politics and religion very deliberately to justify doing things they would otherwise regard as unreasonable.
the state as a pen-and-paper 'artificial intelligence'
Implicature cannot be determined prior to determining the illocutionary force.
three elements of conversational implicature
(1) cooperative presumption
(2) determinacy (supposition of belief or something similar)
(3) mutual knowledge (supposition of intention to communicate belief or similar)
Pragmatic meanings cannot be determined without knowing ends of the communicating.
"Our experience, as it comes to us, is a realm of Signs." Royce
idolatry and the cognitive alienation of the image of God into other things
class
(1) object/element/individual
(2) relation of membership
(3) assertion of membership (mapping to truth/falsehood)
(4) principle/norm/standard to which assertion may be compared so as to constituted the unity of the class
Through the Spirit we are made the symbol of Christ.
intrinsic common consent (nature or reason) vs. extrinsic common consent (original experience and tradition or widespread experience)
common consent and the entire human race as a rational inquirer
four forms of common consent: nature, reason, experience, tradition --> each of these gives you certainty within the limits of the source plus confirmation/testing through time and across different situations
Many social entities are specifically designed artifacts that are physically produced; it's just that only considering their physical production gives you an incomplete explanation.
Scientific experimentation takes place within the social world, and scientific experiments are social entities that fill a social role in inquiry.
Doubting itself implies by contrast the idea of omniscience.
theocrasia: the melding of deities
"Man is the being who can say *no*." Scheler
The mind or sense of the Church is a communal participation in divine providence.
"Ecclesia est societas instituta ad conservandam profitendamque omnem veritatem doctrinae Christi pertinentem." Berthier
atheism fantasy in science fiction
the angelic proclamation as an archetype of evangelism (Leo, Sermon 26)
"Peace nurses love, engenders unity, gives repose to the blessed, and provides a home to eternity....Where the truth of peace has been, no virtue can be lacking." Leo (Sermon 26)
possible worlds as perspectives --> intersubjective identity
"In solipsistic experience we do not reach the natural object, 'human being'." Husserl
Human life begins already in the middle of extensive cooperation.
Encounter is necessarily not the most fundamental mode of personal interaction; it is a derivative and highly impoverished one.
We begin as persons to understand the world and we begin to understand the world insofar as it is personal toward us.
Reason comes from what is beyond itself but not different from itself.
love and the blending of personal ambits
Even in sexual love we feel ourselves swept up by something bigger than we are, which we are, being swept up by the species of which we are a part.
Medicine is sanocentric in end but remedial in means.
To recognize moral disagreement requires recognizing there really is disagreement and that it really is moral.
constituation as "a time-indexed, contingent relation of unity between items of different primary kinds" (LR Baker)
Marriage is constituted not merely by the spouses but by a moral framework.
institutionalizing, institutionalized, and noninstitutional conventions
Numerical terms are not univocal, because they vary according to number system.
Affirmation of existence is not denial of the number zero, as one sees when the zero is temperature.
Platonic Myths as attempts to communicate the justice and the like are much 'bigger' than people are assuming.
mathematics as the icon of knowledge
Most observable things are made to be observable.
four different experiences of community: in, with, to, from/for
baptism : in :: confirmation : with :: ordination : to & for
ordinate (prior/posterior) disjunctive transcendentals ; purity (unqualified/qualified) disjunctive transcendentals
--> These are overlapping -- unqualified priors are especially important for metaphysics
Every virtue, intellectual or moral, suggests divinity in some way.
"a spiritual creature possesses an intrinsic generation which is the generation of a word by the mind; among all created things, this bears the greatest likeness to eternal generation." Bonaventure
"Generation is the communication or acceptance of being through consubstantiality."
"Both generation and spiration exist in the person of the Father."
"That unity is highest which exists in many but is undivided, and this implies a tirnity. That truth is highest which is infallible and most certain, and this implies necessity. That goodness is highest which is both lovable and loving, and this implies will."
novelty as a kind of measurable posteriority
society as constituted by fellowship and headship
The divine processions are immutable and consensual.
All good is self-diffusive in a manner appropriate to itself, but that good is most self-diffusive that loves.
transcendental unity --> continuous union --> discrete unit
Lukasiewicz's axioms for the 24 valid moods of syllogism
(1) Aaa
(2) Iaa
(3) CK Abc Aab Aac (Barbara)
(4) CK Abc Iba Iac (Datisis)
Modalizing predication is not the same as modalizing a predicate term that is then predicated.
"God gave language, when it was first instituted, a double purpose, and established it as a kind of mediation between the two great orders of visible and invisible things. Its first purpose was to make the sensible universe fully intelligible; the second, to make it a means by which we might pass beyond the confines of the sensible universe and rise to the knowledge of greater things." Rosmini
"Nothing is more absurd than to consider as contrary to reason the means that help, perfect, and instruct it."
People don't learn from 'instructional design'; the latter removes barriers and interfering complexities, and does not bear the essential elements of teaching and learning. Effective learning cannot be engineered, only aided.
Freedom always presupposes a kind of grace.
"A 'fall' takes place when an agent enters a region of the life-tree to which there is no permitted inlet. A 'predicament' occurs when an agent finds himself in an (acting-, life-) situation from which there is no permitted way out. An agent is in a predicament when his situation is such that, whatever he does, he does something he ought to omit, and whatever he omits, he neglects something he ought to do." von Wright
the Jephthah Theorem -- O(~t/p) -> O~p
"It is only as a consequence of a fall that a man can come to be in a predicament." von Wright
possibility --> ensemble --> probability
Physics is always in a state of inconsistency; it has never not been so.
'ens quoddam diminutum' = not ens realis, but not repugnant to actual being like ens rationis (cf. Punch vs. Mastri on whether this is possible; this dispute arises due to differences in how ens realis is defined)
The possibility of creatures presupposes God as exemplar cause; the possibility of their beginning to exist presupposes God as efficient and final cause.
Love itself does not kneel.
Contracts do not express resolve or resolution.
A contract is a shared artifact.
Statutory law is always a response to the life of a community, which pre-exists it.
authority as self-diffusion of truth
"We humans very easily attribute to ourselves rights we do not have." Rosmini
Good tends to link up with good over time.
"True peace for a Christian means not being separated from the will of God and taking delight only in those things which God loves." Leo (Sermon 29)
The actual language of science is and has always been heavily intensional.
"The cause of evil is a deficient cause, but in God there is no deficiency; his every act is perfect." Rosmini
first cause
(1) as positive (creative) -> being
(2) as negative
-- -- (2a) non-deficient
-- -- -- -- (2a1) permissive -> moral evil
-- -- -- -- (2a2) inactive -> penal evil
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- (2a2a) nongiving (not carrying out an action)
-- -- -- -- -- -- -- (2a2b) ceasing to carry out action
-- -- (2b) deficient (N/A)
