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To: cornelis

I meant to add that it is possible to utter perfectly formulated logical statements in which each premise is undeniably true, and still reach a conclusion that conflicts with reality. That is a problem with language.

Usually it is easy to find some obvious fallacy or misuse of language, but not always.


723 posted on 01/13/2005 2:48:45 PM PST by js1138 (D*mn, I Missed!)
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To: js1138
but shouldn't that read, that conflicts with what is currently perceived as reality. lol
725 posted on 01/13/2005 2:53:31 PM PST by D Edmund Joaquin (Secret Agent Man (Step away,Ma'am, I've been labeled " a danger"))
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To: js1138
That is a problem with language

Right. And it is a problem with the nature of human thought. Ol' Parmenides slipped out the back when he claimed the equivalence of thinking and being.

730 posted on 01/13/2005 3:03:37 PM PST by cornelis
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