[lit-ideas] Re: "Promissory Materialism" Correction

  • From: "Adriano Palma" <Palma@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 14:12:58 +0200

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strictly they aren't even contradictory

>>> Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx> 11/10/2011 1:55 PM >>>


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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