Re: prove this statement with math?
- From: "ošin" <ošin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2005 00:48:13 -0700
> blaise pascal has wrote,
>
> Contradiction is not a sign of falsity,
> nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth.
>
> can anyone prove this mathematically?
Prove this mathematically? That would be goofy on the face of it. Just think
about what you are asking! Firstly, it is not a premise framed in a
mathematical form. Secondly, this Pascal quote is stupid... not even
wrong...
Also, note that Blaise was mathematician, but he was religious philosopher
too. He was in fact a very devout Catholic. After he experienced a mystical
mental blow-out in 1654 he switched away from math to theology (so sad). I
bet that this quote you mention was written after 1654 (but I have not
checked on that. too much work). I figure that what he was talking about
there was about his religious beliefs. Certainly not his mathematics. For
the last eight years of his life he was a blithering idiot... kind of like
James Harris or Don1.
.
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