[lit-ideas] Re: "Promissory Materialism" Correction
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 11:55:45 +0000 (GMT)
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From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>For now I will give a simpler example to bring out the point using two
>propositions, a p and a non-p:
A. Here there is snow.
A. Here there is no snow.
Assuming "Here" refers to same point in space-time, these A and B contradict.>
That should have been:
"A. Here there is snow.
B. Here there is no snow."
This physical error probably produced no material confusion however, a fact
that tells against a materialist theory of language and if a materialist theory
of language is wrong, then....
again it tells against materialism that this probably doesn't need spelling out
physically.
Donal
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