Context Sensitivity and God
Here are some super quick and fairly superficial thoughts on the stuff we have been discussing and its relationship to the philosophy of religion. Being temporal, finite, and changeable creatures seems to entail being context sensitive beings and needing languages to be or have context-sensitive elements. Hence, CS expressions is a consequence of the kind of being we are. God is none of the above. Hence, God is not a CS being. Hence, God’s language is not CS. So, one way to express the creature/Creator distinction is at the level of language in general and at the level of CS expressions and thought in particular. And one way to express the incarnation is to see it a merger between a context-insensitive being and a CS being or a merger between context insensitive expressions and thought and CS expressions and thought. By creating or in virtue of creating, God brings into existence something that radically unlike Him in pretty much every respect. One way I like to thin...