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To: Psalm 73
There can be only "one truth", not "many truths".

Just for the record, this statement is demonstrably false. Often repeated, but false nevertheless.

162 posted on 09/29/2006 12:26:13 PM PDT by atlaw
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To: atlaw
The Law of Noncontradiction is totally impeneterable. Two contradictory statements about the same thing at the same time cannot both be true.

If my wife and I are standing before you, and you ask if my wife is pregnant, and I say "No" while my wife simultaneously says "yes", one of us HAS to be wrong. It could be that my wife hasn't told me yet, or i wanted to keep the pregnancy private, but only one of the answers would be "true".

There can be only "one truth", not "many truths".

This is not true, but I doubt the OP meant it like this. (And you probably knew that). But the Law of Noncontradiction is so true that in trying to disprove it, you prove it.

167 posted on 09/29/2006 12:35:51 PM PDT by Warren_Piece (Smart is easy. Good is hard.)
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