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From: rwahl@netcom.com (Robert Wahl)
Subject: Re: The Search For Truth
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>Mike Mattone (mike@mik.uky.edu) wrote:
>: Therefore, I, being an illogical person of warped mentality, conclude:
>:     (A) There are more falsehoods than truths.  That is, set NOT_TRUE
>:         is significantly larger than set NOT_FALSE.

hschmidt@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
>I doubt it, for the following reason:
>For every proposition P, there is a negation not-P.
>If P is true, not-P is false.
>Hence the number of truths is equal to the number of falsehoods..

Angels dancing on the head of a pin.
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Robert Wahl	rwahl@netcom.com	Denver, Colorado, USA
