Free Will (115)

25 Name: Anonymous Scientist : 2007-02-22 19:00 ID:zm6ANFQc

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> Please show a real world example in which something is both true and false.

I never said they could be. I was implying that there are more possiblities than simply "true" and "false".

My argument here is that if the justification for the statement "all statements about the future are either true or false" is that "all statements are true or false", then that justification is demonstratably wrong, as there are statements that are neither true nor false. As an example of such statements, I present self-contradictory ones. There is no need to give any further examples, but such may very well exist.

If the justification is some other one, another argument will have to be made, but I have not seen one given so I just picked the simplest one. Either way, the statement needs justification of some sort.

> Incidentally, another one of the Laws of Thought says every proposition is either true or false.

You will have to give a very tricky definition for "proposition" in order for this to be true. What would that definition be? Would it include statements about the future?

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