(August 13, 2009 at 5:03 pm)Jon Paul Wrote:(August 13, 2009 at 4:44 pm)Kyuuketsuki Wrote: There is, as far as I know, no "Law of Contradiction", there is only a definition of what "contradiction" means. I accept there is a principle that can be derived from that but isn't a law.
The law of contradiction I mentioned only relatively late in the debate. Sure, there are definitions of what is truly contradictory or not, but that doesn't invalidate the law of contradiction; it invalidates perhaps some supposed self-contradictions.
Like I say there's a definition but as far as I know there is no law despite your claim that it exists ... a number of laws have been claimed to exist primarily by theists of various stripes (can't remember them but the kind of thing that often gets quoted are things like the law of first cause which doesn't exist) and it strikes me that this is just another of those oh-so-whacky philosophical bullshit laws that aren't real laws at all. Certainly I haven't been able to find a reasonably objective place that supports this supposed law ... I did find something on the "Laws Of Logic" which has a Law of Non-Contradiction but that's all.
Kyu
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