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 | | From: | Albert | | Subject: | Re: Epistemology 102 | | Date: | Tue, 04 Jan 2005 10:21:12 -0600 |
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 | Mike wrote:
> Positivists employ contradiction that violates the tautology of the
> excluded middle, a self-evident axiom of categorical logic and
> propositional calculus in conjuction with empirical facts. This is a
> very powerful method to validate the soudness of physical theories.
> After arriving at a contradiction confirmed by observation the theory
> is abandoned.
Have you 'validated' anything, when a single observed
contradiction invalidates your theory?
--
"Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the
range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
-- George Orwell as Syme in "1984"
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