Ero Sum Eram

Oremus Mare

I believe in you.

March 11, 2026

Before we begin…

How many numbers is the number 3?

Please do not continue reading until you honestly answer that question in a way that truly satisfies your honest counting method.

How do we count?

By proper category & context.

How do you count?

A sloppy argument can still sound clever if it hides its confusion behind a meme.

That is what happens when Muslims post a picture of chickens and sarcastically ask, “How many chickens is this?” The joke is meant to pressure Christians into a contradiction: if the Father is God and the Son is God, then supposedly Christians must be counting multiple gods the way we count multiple chickens. The move usually leans on Leibniz’s Law as though it were an epistemic escape hatch, as though one principle by itself settles every question of identity.

It does not.

The problem is not Leibniz’s Law itself. The problem is the abuse of it. Leibniz’s Law is useful as a necessary presupposition of identity: if x is identical to y, then what is true of x is true of y. Fine. No issue there. The issue comes when someone treats that principle as though it abolishes every distinction between person, nature, relation, and mode of predication. Once that happens, reasoning starts sawing off the branch it is sitting on.