(September 27, 2009 at 10:36 pm)theVOID Wrote: No, not or logical tautology ... Evidence and logical tautology.
Hrmm. I think you perhaps misunderstand the difference. Can you demonstrate a proposition that is true BOTH evidentially AND tautologically? Personally, I cannot conceive of one. As far as I am aware, the negation of a necessary truth (tautological proposition) results in a contradiction, whereas one can negate a contingent truth (empirical proposition) without producing a contradiction; ergo, a proposition is either empirically true or tautologically true, but never both.
(September 27, 2009 at 10:36 pm)theVOID Wrote: Others on this forum have already done so.
"What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof," yes? Thus I have done with your unsupported assertion.
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)
