In a message dated 28/10/2004 19:41:38 GMT Standard Time,
michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
rene:
> if p then p
> if not-p, then not-p
do tautologies say nothing? what is saying nothing?
"you are matter
the earth is matter
but it doesn't matter"
[beefheart]
regards
mP
Jud
Good lad - you're catching on. A tautology is a logical statement that is
necessarily true.
The tautologous statement: *an entity exists in the way it exists* proves
something that Renekins - didn't notice.
That it cuts the feet from under the silliness of the Heidibolloxonian
*ontological difference.*
An acceptance as to its tautologousness is to automatically rubbish the
*ontological difference.* which you and Rene have just done.
If an object exists in the way it exists, then it's being the object its
being and its being is contemporaneous with its being the being it's being, and
as it is being a particular object, that means that its particular being IS
the particular object. Hence there is no ontological difference. A being
exists in the way that it exists.
Congratulations to both of you - you've escaped from your
transcendentalistic choky at last!
Regards,
Jud
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