Physite analogy

[mc776]

Suppose you had a red circle and a blue circle of equal size.

Then shortly after the circles are taken away and you see what looks like a dark purple circle, the same size as the first two.

It is labeled "woog".

There are 3 interpretations of what woog means:

1. A third circle that is dark purple in colour, made from the original two circles.
2. A third circle that contains both the original two circles.

Now you have some people who insist that what we're seeing is
3. The original two circles overlapping each other.

These people never, ever use the word "woog" to describe it.

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The people who do use that word insist that:
(a) "woog" has the second meaning; and
(b) the second and third interpretations are synonymous, whatever the first might mean.

The people who do not use that word insist that:
(a) "woog" has the first meaning; and
(b) the first and second interpretations are synonymous and, in any event, neither could possibly mean the third.

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Without reading the cut text if possible, does the second interpretation mean the same thing as the third, and, assuming you can't move any of the circles or look at them from the side or otherwise measure depth, how would you be able to prove it either way?

Comments

[helarxe]

You know, the extraction of the theological stake made me even less capable of firmly holding the matter and that was lurking in my mind all week, and for some reason in a stupor of longing-addled ecstasies this seemed to be entirely the same thing in the entirely lesser stake of Regret.

[mc776]

I'm trying to find a quote from Fr. Stephen or someone else who recently basically said that the nature of the major dogmatic councils is only understood in hindsight, which would then make that poem and its thereinprescribed reading immediately relevant.

It seems that the entire thing hinges on whether there really exists, as a result of the position resulting in that overlap, something that can be called, or is worth calling, a third circle.