Re: Physics and metaphysics

From: Virgil (ITSnetNOTcom#virgil_at_COMCAST.com)
Date: 03/08/05 

Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 20:42:55 -0700

In article <VdGdnf6latW-crHfRVn-rw@comcast.com>,
 Atheistagnostic <atheistagnostic@nospam.net> wrote:

> Virgil wrote:
>
> > The logical negation of any statement is as much a statement as the
> > original ...
>
> Not all statements are assertions

Any statement which one expects to have accepted as true is an assertion
of that truth.

Therefore, Simple Septic is claiming that when he says "False, there are
no such things", about gods, he does not expect his state,ment to be
accepted as true.

Which is just as well, since no one _knows_ that it is true.

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