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    Popular Latin trinitarianism holds claims 1–3 about numer... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Popular Latin trinitarianism is incoherent

    Popular Latin trinitarianism holds claims 1–3 about numerical identity among the divine persons and God

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    Claims 1–3, given transitivity and symmetry of numerical identity, logically imp...Popular Latin trinitarianism is incoherentThe numerical identity relation is defined as transitive and symmetrical

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    But the conjunction of these claims, which has been called “popular Latin trinitarianism”, is demonstrably incoherent (Tuggy 2003a, 171; Layman 2016, 138–9). Because the numerical identity relation is defined as transitive and symmetrical, claims 1–3 imply the denials of 4–6. If 1–6 are steps in an argument, that argument can continue thus:

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