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Ralph A. Pontier
Ralph A. Pontier Member Posts: 16 ✭✭
edited November 2024 in English Forum

I want to search all resources for the phrase "God-man" but want to eliminate "God, man" and "God man"

In other words, I want only the hyphenated phrase that refers to the two natures of Christ. 

How do I filter out the unwanted combinations of the two words.  I tried ANDNOT but it eliminated everything.

Thanks,

Ralph

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  • Bruce Dunning
    Bruce Dunning MVP Posts: 11,163

    This is a great question. I am certainly no expert in this but I'm always interested in learning more.

    From my limited understanding a hyphen (-) used between two words is ignored in Boolean searches so searching for the exact phrase "God-man" will be interpreted as God man because there is such a strong connection between the two words. I would love to know if there is a way around this but I am doubtful that there is.

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  • John Brumett
    John Brumett Member Posts: 612 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/800393#Comment_800393

    Try putting "God-Man" in quotes and then click match case.  This should eliminate all the lower case man in the hits.   

  • Bruce Dunning
    Bruce Dunning MVP Posts: 11,163
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/800398#Comment_800398

    John Brumett said:

    Try putting "God-Man" in quotes and then click match case.  This should eliminate all the lower case man in the hits.   

    Certainly this eliminated the cases when "man" is not capitalized but I would think that many of the examples of "God-man" in resources would not capitalize the word "man".

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  • Bradley Grainger (Logos)
    Bradley Grainger (Logos) Administrator, Logos Employee Posts: 12,191

    Ralph A. Pontier said:

    I want to search all resources for the phrase "God-man" but want to eliminate "God, man" and "God man"

    In other words, I want only the hyphenated phrase that refers to the two natures of Christ. 

    This is going to be difficult in Logos 6 because the search engine ignores punctuation. That is, from the search engine's point of view "God-man" and "God man" look exactly the same. However...

    You can eliminate hits for "God, man" by searching for "surface:God BEFORE 2-2 CHARS surface:man"; that will allow only one intervening character (and won't find results in footnotes).

    Then, I think you'll find that because "God man" is an unusual phrase in English, most of the results will actually be "God-man".

  • Ralph A. Pontier
    Ralph A. Pontier Member Posts: 16 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/800408#Comment_800408

    Dear Mr. Grainger,

    Your suggestion proved helpful.  Thank you.

    I watched all the "search" videos I could find before asking my question but saw nothing about the parameters you suggested.  When can I learn about them?

    Is there an on line Logos 6 printed manual?

    Ralph

  • Ralph A. Pontier
    Ralph A. Pontier Member Posts: 16 ✭✭
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/800419#Comment_800419

    I meant "where" can I learn of them.

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,544
    https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/800420#Comment_800420

    https://wiki.logos.com/Search_HELP and the Help File inside Logos/Verbum

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