“A set having three members is a single thing
wholly constituted by its members but distinct from them.
After this, the theological doctrine of the Trinity as
‘three in one’ should be child’s play.”
– Max Black, Caveats and Critiques: Philosophical Essays
in Language, Logic, and Art , Cornell U. Press, 1975
Related material—
Hi Stephen:
Have you seen Margaret Masterman's essay on a trinitarian diagram in Theoria to Theory? I transcribed the relevant portions here:
http://home.earthlink.net/~hipbone/IDTWeb/Master.html
Comment by hipbone — Monday, June 4, 2012 @ 3:45 am
Hello Charles:
No, I hadn't seen Masterman's essay, which is highly relevant.
Thank you for the link.
See the footnote to my post today on the next higher dimension:
"Cube to Tesseract," http://m759.net/wordpress/?p=24955 .
Comment by m759 — Monday, June 4, 2012 @ 10:37 am