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To: C19fan

A statement is either true or untrue. There is no middle ground between true and untrue.
Anyone who denies that first principle cannot have a discussion with someone who doesn’t.
Don’t blame me. Ask Aristotle and Aquinas.


28 posted on 05/27/2016 12:58:27 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: I want the USA back
A statement is either true or untrue. There is no middle ground between true and untrue.

But you're not dealing with a "statement" here. You're dealing with "states."

A good example would be with time. I think we can all agree that a second is a finite, definable unit of time. However, depending on location and surrounding "environmental" variables, a second at point A and a second at point B are not necessarily the same duration, even though they're each a second.

This was demonstrated with the development of GPS, which requires very accurate time keeping. When it was first developed, it was found that GPS had problems with points on the earth moving around. It came from the fact that time "runs differently" on earth than it does in orbiting satellites, proving Einstein's theory.

Mark

40 posted on 05/28/2016 7:47:38 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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