Posted by alexandra_k on December 4, 2005, at 14:53:35
In reply to Re: ...addendum » linkadge, posted by alexandra_k on December 2, 2005, at 22:10:28
Ooh. I woke up at three in the morning...
With the realisation that I messed this up rather...> 'the present king of france is bald'.
> It is not T, so it must be F.
> but to say it is F is to imply / logically entail that
> 'there is a present king of france and that present king of france is bald' is T.LOL!!! No it isn't. to say that it is F is to imply / logically entail that 'there is a present king of france and that present king of france is bald' is F.
(oops)
So...
> but of course 'there is a present king of france' is F.Yep.
> and thus 'there is a present king of france and that king of france is bald' is F.
Yep.
But there isn't a contradiction anymore...
:-(
Crap.
I'm sure it was neither true nor false because it led to contradiction if we regarded it as false...
Zeugma...
help...
poster:alexandra_k
thread:585017
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/social/20051203/msgs/585398.html