Re: Tautologies and Empirical Truth

From: Lester Zick (lesterDELzick_at_worldnet.att.net)
Date: 10/28/04 

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 15:52:31 GMT

On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 19:42:07 -0400, Wolf Kirchmeir
<wwolfkir@sympatico.ca> in comp.ai.philosophy wrote:

>Lester Zick wrote:
>
>[...]
>>
>> Aw, c'mon, Wolf, you're quibbling. If something is always true, it's
>> true for all things everywhere at all times. If it's not true for all
>> things everywhere, it's not true all the time. Totally irrelevant.
>>
>> Regards - Lester
>
>Yup, you're right. It's even true of things that don't exist. And of
>things that cannot exist. Great things, tautologies. A deal more
>powerful than universal truths, in fact, which for some reason are
>limited to things that exist. At least, that's how I learned to use the
>phrase. You're welcome, as always, to play at Humpty Dumpty. But
>remember what happened to him, not too much after Alice talked to him.

Yes, yes, Wolf, I can readily appreciate your concern for my eggs,
which I expect you'd like to break yourself. But neither tautologies
nor universal truths are limited to things that exist. Sounds like a
few of your eggs have been broken already.

Regards - Lester

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