Nicephorus Blemmydes on the Holy Trinity and the Paraconsistent Notion of Numbers: A Logical Analysis of a Byzantine Approach to the Filioque
Basil Lourié
Abstract The paper deals with the most controversial - in modern scholarly discussion episode within Byzantine polemics on Filioque, Nicephorus Blemmydes‘ acknowledgement of proceeding Spirit through Son providing that be considered as generated Spirit. logical intuition behind this theological idea is explicated terms paraconsistent logic and especially a kind numbers called by author “pseudo-natural numbers”. Such could not interpreted via notion ordered pair. Instead, they imply known (first described Emil Post 1941) but still little studied connective ternary exclusive OR.
Studia Humana