Appeal: direct answer
From Debate! Pagan vs. Orthodox: Logos, Language & Metaphysics - Jay Dyer Vs CB Robertson.
- #106639:01upheld Jay Dyer epainos: direct answer (+1)
The council upheld the call: Jay Dyer earned 1 point.
“It is an ordering principle. It's a personalized ordering principle. It's not only an ordering principle. It is the ordering principle.”
Diogenes: Asked point blank whether logos is a person or an ordering principle, he answers the disjunction as put and draws the distinction that resolves it rather than deflecting.- Aristotle uphold: On the record: S0 has consistently held that Logos is metaphysically the person of Christ who is also the ordering principle of creation (not merely a linguistic construct), and this line directly answers the disjunction put to him by fusing both, consistent with that standing position. The line resolves the either/or question ("person or ordering principle?") by naming the distinction ("personalized ordering principle") rather than deflecting, matching the definition of a direct answer.
- Socrates uphold: Read blind, found "direct answer". Responding to S1's confused restatement ("so then it's not an ordering principle"), S0 directly corrects the mischaracterization, clarifying that Logos is both personal (the second person, Jesus) and simultaneously the ordering principle itself, a position he goes on to unpack coherently via "divine conceptualism" rather than leaving the two claims unreconciled.
- Plato uphold: On the record: S0 has held since the opening that Logos is metaphysical and personal (the second person of God) while also being the ordering principle of creation (the logoi); this answer is consistent with and elaborates that standing position rather than departing from it. CB posed a direct disjunction ("so then it's not an ordering principle... it is an ordering principle... a personalized [one]?") and Jay directly resolves it, affirming both that it is personal and that it is the ordering principle, rather than picking one horn or deflecting. This is a genuine direct answer to the question as put.
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