{"id":12301,"date":"2009-10-24T13:11:16","date_gmt":"2009-10-24T13:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/24\/condign-punishment\/"},"modified":"2009-10-24T13:11:16","modified_gmt":"2009-10-24T13:11:16","slug":"condign-punishment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/24\/condign-punishment\/","title":{"rendered":"Condign Punishment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">There are qualifiers that occur&#0160;only&#0160;with the word they happen to qualify&#0160;but &#0160;not with any other word.&#0160; &#0160;A punishment and a remark can both be fitting or appropriate, but only a punishment is condign. One does not hear or read &#39;condign remark.&#39; Is &#39;condign&#39; ever used apart from &#39;punishment&#39;? That is one question. A second: What is the technical term for this linguistic phenomenon? There is one, but I can&#39;t remember what it is.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">A reader supplied this bit of linguistic evidence that answers my first question:&#0160; &quot;Scotus&#39;s proposed replacement way of drawing the distinction between <em>condign merit<\/em> and congruous merit is quite complicated. Underlying it is the claim that the reward for <em>condign merit<\/em> is everlasting life, and that the reward for congruous merit is the gift of sanctifying grace (i.e., justification).&quot;&#0160;&#0160;(Richard Cross, <em>&#0160;Duns Scotus, <\/em>p. 105)<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">As for &#0160;the second question, I thought the answer might be <em>hapax legomenon<\/em>.&#0160; But that term refers to a word or phrase that occurs but once in a corpus, a phenomenon which is similar to but distinct from the phenomenon I am referring to.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are qualifiers that occur&#0160;only&#0160;with the word they happen to qualify&#0160;but &#0160;not with any other word.&#0160; &#0160;A punishment and a remark can both be fitting or appropriate, but only a punishment is condign. One does not hear or read &#39;condign remark.&#39; Is &#39;condign&#39; ever used apart from &#39;punishment&#39;? That is one question. A second: What &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/10\/24\/condign-punishment\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Condign Punishment&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language-matters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}