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    Trinitarian problems of self-consistency vanish. — Carmelics
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    Trinitarian problems of self-consistency vanish.

    Trinity
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    • 1.The Trinity is just an ordinary case of one-many identity.
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    • 2.Number-properties are concept-relative (following Frege).
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    • 1.Relative identity (Geach) requires a sortal concept under which items are identical, but 'God' and 'person' yield contradictory identity facts for the same pairs.
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    • 2.If the Father is the same God as the Son but not the same person, transitivity of identity is violated, not dissolved by concept-relativity.
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    • 1.Frege's context principle governs number ascriptions to concepts, not identity statements between individual substances in classical theology.
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    • 2.Trinitarian doctrine as formulated at Nicaea and Chalcedon explicitly commits to numerical oneness of substance, which resists Fregean relativization.
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    Einar Bøhn (2011)
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    Einar Bøhn (2011) argues that trinitarian problems of self-consistency vanish when one realizes that the Trinity “is just an ordinary case of one-many identity” (363). He takes from Frege the idea that number-properties are concept-relative. Thus,
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    Validity: The passage explicitly states that Bøhn argues trinitarian self-consistency problems vanish "when one realizes that the Trinity is just an ordinary case of one-many identity," and he draws on Frege's concept-relative number-properties to support this, making both the argument structure and its presence in the passage clear.

    Confidence: The argument is clearly stated: Bøhn uses Frege's concept-relative number properties to support the claim that the Trinity is an ordinary case of one-many identity, which in turn resolves self-consistency problems.

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