caa a22 4500 386387214 CHVBK 20180307112102.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0034412500001761 doi S0034412500001761 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0034412500001761 Cain James Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, U.S.A. The Doctrine of the Trinity and the Logic of Relative Identity [Elektronische Daten] [James Cain] The doctrine of the Trinity says that there is just one God and three distinct divine persons, each of whom is God. This would seem to imply that there are three divine persons, each a different person the other persons but the same God as the other persons. If we accept what I believe is the most popular account of identity current among logicians then we must hold that this apparent consequence is contradictory. We see this as follows (it will suffice to consider just the relation of Father and Son): logicians generally treat relativized identity expressions of the form ‘is the same A as' (here ‘A' stands in for a term which relativizes the identity) as being analysable in terms of absolute (or unrelativized) identity according to the following equivalence schema, (E): (E) a is the same A as b if and only if a is identical to b and a is an A and b is an A. The view under consideration affirms the following three sentences: (1) The Father and the Son are persons. (2) The Father is not the same person as the Son. (3) The Father is the same God as the Son. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-06), 141-152 0034-4125 25:2<141 1989 25 RES https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500001761 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034412500001761 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Cain James Department of Philosophy, Princeton University, U.S.A NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Religious Studies Cambridge University Press 25/2(1989-06), 141-152 0034-4125 25:2<141 1989 25 RES CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge