This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...entertained by any sane mind. If we were really to doubt about the law of contradiction we should thereby be landed in absolute scepticism, which we have seen to be mere folly, because all certainty would be thereby destroyed; for, if anything can at the same time both be and not be, then nothing can be true without ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 Excerpt: ...entertained by any sane mind. If we were really to doubt about the law of contradiction we should thereby be landed in absolute scepticism, which we have seen to be mere folly, because all certainty would be thereby destroyed; for, if anything can at the same time both be and not be, then nothing can be true without its being possible for it also to be untrue, and this amounts to a veritable paralysis of the intellect, reducing us to mental impotency. The excessive folly implied in any doubt of the objective validity of the law of contradiction has been so well shown by an attempt on the part of a Mr. E. T. Dixon to impugn its truth, that I think I cannot do better than here call attention to it. Mr. Dixon affirmed: "If any one chooses to say a thing both ' is' and ' is not, ' there is no law against his doing so, only if he does so he is not talking the Queen's English." To which I replied: " By so doing he breaks the law of reason, if not the law of the land; and, indeed, to act on such a principle when on oath in a court of law might have inconvenient consequences." To a verbal quibble about the word " to be," I replied: "Let us avoid the use of the terms ' is' and ' is not'; they are not necessary. Does Mr. Dixon really doubt whether if he had lost an eye he would still remain, after that loss, in the very same condition he was in before? If any one does not see the objective im See Correspondence in Nature, from December 10, 1891, to February II, 1892. possibility of such a thing everywhere and everywhen--i. e., if he does not apprehend the application of the law of contradiction--then he either does not understand the question, or his mental condition is pathological." The implications of science are really there...
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