Stage 1 | Combustion entails the release of phlogiston | Sins entail behavioural transgressions |
Stage 2 | But phlogiston theories cannot easily accommodate observed facts about the increased mass of certain burned objects | But secular medicine cannot accommodate the soul as an explanatory factor |
Stage 3 | So the explanation of combustion must move beyond the suggestions of the simple phlogiston theorists | So unacceptable behaviour must be brought in to the secular, medical arena, not the religious, moral, one: it now becomes a matter of dysfunction of moral faculties–the mind rather than soul |
Effect | Eventual development of modern chemistry | Eventual development of modern psychiatry |