[lit-ideas] Whereof one cannot speak, one ought to pass over in silence
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:23:32 EDT
In a message dated 6/17/2011 12:36:13 P.M., donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx
writes:
Whereof one cannot speak, one ought to pass over in silence.
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I will reverse the tautology:
whereof one can pass over in silence, one ought not to speak.
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Any symbolic formalisation of the above shows that both McEvoy's
'original' statement and my contraposition are tautologies. Note, as Geary
notes,
the lack of counterexamples.
Cheers,
J. L. Speranza
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