Appeal: false claim

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• #22401:27:27upheld S5 claim: false claim (+1)
  The council upheld the finding, but nothing on this stream goes on anyone’s record.
  The claim, as Thucydides noted it: The Roman Catholic doctrine of the beatific vision holds that in the eschaton the blessed will only the divine essence, because their vision is fixed on it, so there is not a multiplicity of things they will.
  Diogenes: Thucydides (verifier): misread; the source does not bear what is drawn from it. Benedictus Deus defines that the blessed see the divine essence "by intuitive vision and even face to face," with no mediating creature, and that this vision is not interrupted. It says nothing about the blessed willing only the divine essence or lacking a multiplicity of willed objects. Roman Catholic teaching, following Aquinas, holds that the blessed keep free will: they cannot sin, but they still will and love many things (God, one another, and creatures in God). Jay Dyer's inference that the doctrine means "no real free will" is therefore his own gloss, not the text. I did not open the text this session and relied on the standard definition as I know it.
  • Aristotle uphold: On the record: Jay Dyer opened as host of an open forum, then held a presuppositionalist Orthodox stance against Rome and Thomism; the called line, claiming the Roman beatific vision fixes the will on the divine essence alone, fits that stance but is a factual claim about Catholic doctrine. Benedictus Deus defines the vision of the divine essence and says nothing about the blessed willing only that essence. Catholic teaching, following Aquinas, holds that the blessed keep free will and will many things. Dyer says "this is how they define it," which presents his gloss as Rome's own definition, so the claim is a misread and the finding holds.
  • Socrates overturn: Read blind, found nothing worth calling. This is Jay's description of the Roman Catholic beatific vision, given as an aside in his reply to Drew, who is not disputing it. It is a factual characterisation inside a monologue-style turn and is put forward as a premise, not as a fallacious move. The claim may be contestable (Thomists do not say the blessed lose free will), but no opponent answers it here, and judging that is the verifier's job, not a fault of reasoning.
  • Plato uphold: On the record: Jay Dyer opened as host of an open forum, declared no thesis beyond Orthodox presuppositionalism, and has held a running polemic against Rome and a pattern of dismissing callers; this beatific vision line is more of that anti-Roman polemic and does not depart from it. The claim that Catholic doctrine has the blessed will only the divine essence, with no multiplicity of willed objects, is not found in Benedictus Deus or in Thomistic teaching. Catholic teaching keeps the freedom of the blessed and has them love many things in God. It is Dyer's own gloss presented as the Catholic position, and nobody objected on the floor, so the verifier's finding holds.

  The bench voted on this, and its verdict is kept as it was given. It does not vote on the calls of a call-in show now, and nothing there counts on anybody’s record.

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