{"id":1158,"date":"1985-07-12T04:08:09","date_gmt":"1985-07-12T09:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/?p=1158"},"modified":"2016-10-05T02:00:02","modified_gmt":"2016-10-05T07:00:02","slug":"1158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marshner.christendom.edu\/?p=1158","title":{"rendered":"On The Implicit"},"content":{"rendered":"

Abstract<\/h3>\n
Every theory of doctrinal development makes some appeal to the concept of implicit information. But no theologian or Church historian has bothered to explore this concept philosophically with the contemporary tools for doing so. I refer to tools such as an up-to-date philosophy of language and an up-to-date logic of significance and context. It was to fill this lack that \u201cOn the Implicit\u201d was written in the mid-1980s. Although what is said to be implicit in actions and in speech-acts is considered, the bulk of the work is on what can be said to be implicit in propositions. A careful analysis distinguishes \u201cpropositions\u201d from mere sentences and discusses two basic semantic levels on which a sentence is interpreted to yield a proposition. Then, what is explicit in a proposition is stated more exactly. Several theories of implicit content are then examined, including the ludicrously misnamed \u201clogical\u201d and \u201ctheological\u201d theories. My solution is rounded out with appendices on the implicit in analogies, metaphors, and the prima credibilia.<\/p>\n
-W.H. Marshner<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/h3>\n

Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5\r\nPart I: The Implicit in Practices and Speech-acts . . . . . . 9\r\nPart II: The Implicit in Propositions . . . . . . . . . . . .21\r\n Chapter 1: What Counts as a Proposition . . . . . . . . .23\r\n Chapter 2: A Logical Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37\r\n Chapter 3: A Semantical Start . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45\r\n Chapter 4: Two Theological Divertimenti . . . . . . . . . 57\r\n1. Il Cimento Hermeneutico . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .57\r\n2. Fuga Scholastica . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .61\r\n Chapter 5: How to Go On From Here? . . . . . . . . . . . .67\r\n Chapter 6: A Braided Solution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77\r\nStrand 1: Counterfactual Connexion . . . . . . . . . . . . . .78\r\nStrand 2: Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .82\r\nStrand 3: Relevance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .89\r\nChapter 7: Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97\r\nPart III: Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101\r\n The Implicit in Living Metaphor . . . . . . . . . . . . .103\r\n The Implicit in Analogies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .106\r\n How Christianity is Implicit in the Prima Credibilia . .110\r\n<\/pre>\n

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