Dale Tuggy
Analytic philosopher and biblical unitarian; author of the Stanford Encyclopedia “Trinity” entry. In this corpus he is the named critic of Branson and of Swinburne’s social Trinity, and a cardinality control (one / two / four-plus) against exact-three necessity claims.
Dale Tuggy is the analytic unitarian this corpus actually uses as a named critic, not a blog foil. He wrote the Stanford Encyclopedia "Trinity" entry. He argues Branson's monarchy makes Branson a unitarian by Branson's own "God = the Father" usage; he argues Swinburne's social model is a fairly straightforward tritheism; he supplies one/two/four-plus controls against exact-three necessity.
Steelmanning him means taking the Shema / John 17:3 "Father alone" reading as a textually motivated position, which Branson himself partly concedes via the "duly authorized agent" escape. It does not mean Tuggy has shown Trinity incoherent, or that unitarian cardinality ("why exactly one?") is cost-free. Symmetric cost on the narrow Branson exchange; ARGUMENT_INCOMPLETE on exact-three.
The mistaken everyday reading is "the guy who doesn't understand the Trinity." He understands the models well enough to force this program to distinguish WIG, consistency, and cardinality — three different questions.
Where this comes up
Sources
- Dale Tuggy, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Trinity”; Debby packets OTC-002 and OTC-011