(August 21, 2015 at 5:35 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote: Does that explain the polarity between desert and tropic?
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Meaning 1.1 quoted above for the word "desert" is "uninhabited." They came upon an uninhabited island. That is not opposed to being a tropic island. An uninhabited tropic island is not a contradiction.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.