[lit-ideas] Re: "Promissory Materialism" Correction
- From: Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2011 17:16:56 +0000 (GMT)
My posts on the following, and the issue of materialism/physicalism as
preferred terminology [which suggested 'World 1' is preferable to either], went
astray last week. I take it these posts were not received on the list. Having
re-subscribed, where I had previously proposed:-
"A. Here there is snow.
B. Here there is no snow.
Assuming "Here" refers to same point in space-time, these A and B contradict."
Adriano then commented:- "strictly they aren't even contradictory".
But they are contradictory and strictly so. A is equivalent to "There is such a
thing as snow here". B is equivalent to the negation of A viz. "There is no
such thing as snow here".
So A is a p, and B is its negation non-p: these do contradict, as any p and its
logical negation contradict.
D
London
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