Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:32 pm
Done. Self-contradiction.
There's only one proposition before you. A contradiction requires at least two.
You are denying performatively what you say verbally. That's two, and that's self-contradiction.
Examples: using reasoning in an attempt to disprove reason, or using categories in order to deny categories, or using objective language claims to deny the objective referent possibilities of language.
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:38 pm
You are denying performatively what you say verbally. That's two, and that's self-contradiction.
Examples: using reasoning in an attempt to disprove reason, or using categories in order to deny categories, or using objective language claims to deny the objective referent possibilities of language.
How can I contradict myself if contradictions don't exist?!?!? To contradict myself would mean that contradictions DO exist. DO contradictions exist, or don't they? How can anybody practice Philosophy with such incoherent foundation?!?
Computation. It's fact. It's true. It works. I keep demonstrating it. Over and over. It's science.
You do them, and claim they don't exist. Self-contradiction again.
So you DO admit that contradictions exist and they are real!
Why do you keep saying that they don't?!?!?
Surely, if you are going to pretend that contradictions don't exist when all the evidence is overwhelmingly against you, then YOU are participating in some kind of deluded anti-realism, and not me?!?
Contradictions can be logical such as when two incompatible statements are stated as true
Something cannot be the negation of itself and so that is another example of contradiction
Contradictions obviously exist so therefore cannot be denied
There are also logical fallacies which are also contradictions
surreptitious57 wrote: ↑Sun Feb 09, 2020 8:03 pm
Contradictions can be logical such as when two incompatible statements are stated as true
Something cannot be the negation of itself and so that is another example of contradiction
Contradictions obviously exist so therefore cannot be denied
There are also logical fallacies which are also contradictions
Contradictions signal state-change. Mutation. Bit-flip. Off-by-1 error.
That is HOW communication works. Moving 1 bit, 1 mutation, 1 contradiction from my head to your head.
That's all a contradiction ever was. The arrival of new information. A surprise.
If we couldn't contradict ourselves we wouldn't be able to communicate! Language would stop working.
Philosophy has been pursuing a false God for 2000+ years!
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