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- From: mgm@world.std.com (michael g moncur)
- Subject: Re: The Quotation to End All Quoting
- Message-ID: <C0411A.33J@world.std.com>
- Keywords: paradox quote
- Organization: The World Public Access UNIX, Brookline, MA
- References: <1992Dec28.233034.14013@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Dec30.055826.22270@syacus.acus.oz.au> <30DEC199210092805@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> <C030o8.CJB@ecf.toronto.edu> <30DEC199214424692@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:07:58 GMT
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- batchelor@nssdca.gsfc.nasa.gov (Dave Batchelor, Space Phys. Data Facil. 301/286-2988) writes:
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- >These have demonstrated the original poster's observation to me, some years
- >ago. I have also heard this principle expressed as:
- > For each profound true statement, there is a corresponding opposite profound
- >statement, which is also true.
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- More correctly (I think):
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- "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
- opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth."
- - Niels Bohr
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- ~`~`michael moncur - mgm@world.std.com / sysop@onlybbs.via.mind.org ~`~`
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