The Doctrine of Analogy, I'm Trying to Help Guide You, Right?

The doctrine of analogy says that language is imprecise, and we can only get kind of close to like an approximateestimation of what it is that we're actually talking about. And so when you make those types of claims, they run to very quick errors or a quick problems. So for instance, the classical theist means to say that god is goodness itself, that his nature is goodness. God's nature and goodness are one; there is no god in a way that doesn't subservience to gods. But then also, if you want to say that everything is imprecisitly worded, then all of that stuff will apply togod as well. It seems