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- From: mortoj@marcus.its.rpi.edu (Jeffrey Robert Morton)
- Subject: Re: contradiction?
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- Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
- References: <C1JCqn.7A6@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 00:37:26 GMT
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- In article <C1JCqn.7A6@news.iastate.edu> txdv1@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
- >2.who soever is not against us is with us
- > ^^^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^
- >1.who soever is not with us is against us
- > ^^^^^^^^^ ^^^^^^^^^^
- >so both say the same thing. There are contradictions in the new testament
- >us one. It takes the weight out of an argument if your 'exsample' is false.
- >
- >Elf-Kin
-
- Sigh... Assume, for simplicity's sake, that you have 1/3 of a group for you,
- 1/3 of a group against you, and the other 1/3 of that same group has not stated
- which side they are for. It follows that one of the two statements you are
- discussing must take precedence over the other. That one group is not against
- you. Therefore it is with you. But that 1/3 group has not said that it is
- with you, so by the other statement it is against you.
-
- Therefore, which statement takes precedence. If it has been stated somewhere
- that one does take precedence, then there is no problem. However, if it has
- not been stated then these terms create a paradox, since the remaining 1/3
- cannot be both for and against you at the same time. Understand?
-
- I do suspect, however, that the original poster could have found a better
- paradox, since it took me several readings to understand the paradox implied.
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