On Aug 1, 2012, at 10:09 AM, William Conger <[email protected]> wrote:
> If all A (unity) is B (truth) and all B is C (beautiful) then all A is C. > Circular. No, that's the transitive property of identity, but it's not circular reasoning. A (Unity) has the qualities or attributes X, Y, Z (e.g., fitness, completion, lack of excess) B (Truth) has the attributes M, N, and O (e.g., verifiability, replicability, predictability) A = B, but X, Y, and Z are not attributes of B. Fitness, completion, and lack of excess are not attributes of Truth. But Unity manifests Truth (i.e., is equivalent to Truth) in that the qualities of Unity that are used to define it also reveal the truth of it. This is analogous to three distinct properties of taking a photograph on film: f-stop, shutter speed, and film speed. All three must be present (cannot not be present) as the photograph is being taken, and each one exerts an effect on the ways the other two affect the image on the film, yet is separate from the other two. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady
