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- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Not Thing
- In-Reply-To: sparky@wixer.cactus.org's message of 8 Nov 92 02:22:11 GMT
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Nov8123936@bast.sics.se>
- Sender: news@sics.se
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- References: <1992Nov8.022211.4055@wixer.cactus.org>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 11:39:36 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.022211.4055@wixer.cactus.org> sparky@wixer.cactus.org
- (Timothy Sheridan) writes:
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- >.......Does anyone get this?
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- Get what? Your reflection
-
- >if we say there is an X and "X is never true" then it would seem
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- is somewhat lacking in clarity, since it is not obvious that there is any
- substitution for "X" that produces an intelligible sentence. You suggest
- "if nothingness is X", but neither "there is a nothingness" nor "nothing-
- ness is never true" means anything in ordinary English.
-