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Preface
I am approximately twenty percent through reading the Langer text and I recently received a reasonable deal on a three-set complete Bible commentary, I ordered from a source I have mentioned and alluded to. I will explain more with an audio post when the texts arrive. Book reviews provide me with content from other scholarly sources and allow me to write more articles. Writing is a component of my ministry as is Church ministry.
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Brief: The Four Houses
LANGER, SUSANNE K (1953)(1967) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, New York.
Quote
'The formal context of any discourse may be agreed upon and expressed; the psychological context cannot.' (67). Langer uses the example of different psychological perspectives on death. The potential and possible death of a person from the perspective of a crime victim versus death from the perspective of an undertaker, which is finalized death. The two contexts cannot be exhaustively stated. (67-68). The idea being that they are both far too subjective.
Formal context is objective. Using Langer's use of 'death', the following is an objective documented context for death.
From Oxford Dictionary of Science:
'The point at which the processes that maintain an organism alive no longer function.' (223). In humans this is diagnosed by the permanent ceasing of the heartbeat, although the heart can continue after a significant part of the brain has ceased function. (223). Brain death is a related concept that is documented. (223).
Within Christian thought:
There would be subjective contexts of Christian faith and philosophy, such as one reasons (and feels) God is leading a person to commit a particular act/action.
There would be objective contexts of Christian faith and philosophy, with core biblical doctrines, including and not exhaustively, that there is only one God, God has three distinctions within the trinity, the exclusivity of Christ for salvation by grace through faith alone, for good works, not by good works.
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'The total collection of those and only those elements which belong to a formal context is called a Universe of Discourse. (68). This subject will be reviewed more thoroughly in my next Langer related post. But for now, Langer provides the related symbolic logic:
A group of four houses are a universe of discourse. (69).
Cited
'K=int 'houses'' (69).
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'K (A, B, C, D,)' (69).
My symbols
H= identified with/int Houses
H (1, 2, 3, 4)
or
H (A, B, C, D)
LANGER, SUSANNE K (1953)(1967) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, New York.
Oxford Dictionary of Science, (2010), Sixth Edition, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
