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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.No, logic does not “veto” actuality here. If a category is defined by observable operations in a text, then observing those operations... -
NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.You did use it as a veto earlier when you wrote that the emotive reading “is sufficient to preclude establishing polemic actuality.”...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Emotion does not negate function. A document can be both emotional and polemical at once because tone and argumentative role are...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Agreed. On that shared premise, nothing about the presence of emotion undermines identifying polemic where the text exhibits it...
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About 15 years ago I was invited by an Evangelical to be a judge at a regional Christian hoe school debate tournament. I(t was a big 3...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Correct—my claim of actuality is about the letter’s observable rhetoric, not about the truth of Paul’s origin claim. Galatians itself...
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Well, if nothing else the debate has been a good vocabulary builder for a low brow hoi poloi like me.
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Historical method already bakes that distinction in. We treat hypotheses as possible until observations discriminate among them; only...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.It isn’t a flaw; it’s the core of rational inference. The likelihood requirement—prefer the hypothesis under which the observations are...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Right—history is about reality. My point was never ontological shrink-wrapping; it was methodological demarcation. “In history” names...
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That's the nut of contention around here. As so often is the case, the difference of opinions may be real, but it is obfuscated...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.Yes—fields proceed by adopting a best-supported hypothesis provisionally and revising if counterevidence appears. That practice depends...
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NoHolyCows replied to the thread Origins Of Christianity.“In history” names a method, not a smaller reality. When historians say something is historically true, they are making a claim about...
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Logic form and content? P1: God exists P2: Paul said his words came from god not men. C: Therefore Paul was inspired by god with no...
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History/historian 2000 years ago does not have the meaning as today. An academic or professional historian today is expected to have a...
