> Ken said: > > I'm willing, out of curiosity, to 'determine some idea' of how far off > reality is from various stated views of it. [something within a range in an > infinite scale] > I've got an odd feeling that no one can say anything that's true about > anything. [Nothing that is, except, perhaps, that statement.] *********************
Jack Dayton wrote: > > See what you think of this as a reality based statement: > > "Every thing is either A or nonA at any given time". ********************* Marshall replies: That is a binary state logic statement. Most of reality is not binary, and is instead shades of gray. But, Marshall, my response to Ken¹s challenge ( see above in bold), is valid based upon the context the reply addressed. For instance everything is not either hot or not hot, since there is not definition of exactly what hot is. There is a full spectrum from cold to hot, and can include very warm, slightly hot, hot, very hot. Thus it is impossible to divide into two groups. ³hot²,- ²cold² - are relative terms, and do not belong in this discussion. Likewise soup is neither water, nor nonWater, instead it is partly water. Does that include vichyssoise? :-) You get into this a lot with ethics. Many things are almost impossible today to determine if they are ethical or not, and different people will have differing opinions. The question of ethics is not involved here; just logic is active. Thus everything can be A, nonA or partly, slightly or mostly A as well as other proportions. There was no ³wiggle room² in that statement because it is qualified with: ³...at any given time". Marshall Jack
