From: Scott Roberts (jse885@localnet.com)
Date: Sat Jan 29 2005 - 17:06:20 GMT
Platt,
> OK. Now I get it. A statement like "There are no absolutes" is cognitive
> dissonance.
No. It is only cognitive dissonance if the utterer of "there are no
absolutes" is unaware of its apparent self-contradiction, but that's not
likely. Now I said "apparent" self-contradiction, because, among the
absolutes that the utterer is denying the existence of is the claim that the
law of contradiction of Aristotelian logic applies everywhere. Sometimes the
true may be self-contradictory.
(By the way, it is not my opinion that "there are no absolutes", as I think
there is one absolute, namely Absolute Nothingness. But it is my opinion
that the true may sometimes be self-contradictory.).
- Scott
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