(May 8, 2012 at 11:58 pm)padraic Wrote: Think what you like. I disagree.
You may disagree, but that hardly affects the truth of my analysis. You said (Msg. 101) that "without supporting proof ... a proposition may not be claimed to be true." Since that proposition itself is incapable of any supporting proof, as a truth claim it is self-stultifying. So my question to you is, "Is it true that without supporting proof a proposition may not be claimed to be true?" By your own standards you must answer, "No."
This lesson in irony is completed.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)
called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
(Oscar Wilde)