Since, however, it is a defined dogma of the Catholic Church, I do not feel in the least free to deny it. The difficulty is stating it clearly enough to avoid consequences that are either heretical, philosophically untenable, or both. With that in mind, I have clashed with Orthodox philosopher Perry Robinson on the ADS issue before. I agree with him about the doctrine's importance, but not about its precise meaning and purport. The Anglican Scotist addresses essentially the same concern on which Robinson and I have focused. For the philosophically inclined among you, his post is well worth a read. Tomorrow I shall reply in detail here to Part I.
Who Cut the Light?!
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If, as Derrida says, there is nothing beyond the text, then language is a
closed system that can never get beyond itself to the reality it is
supposed to...
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