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Subject: Re: Zero, a bad concept for logic, math and science?
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In article <4ej57t$hlr@news.sas.ab.ca>, grysmith@fn1.freenet.edmonton.ab.ca () writes:
>haskell jack (meitech@chelsea.ios.com) wrote:
>
>: One of the Three Laws of Thought.
>
>: 3. Law of Excluded Middle - either p is true or p is false;  one or
>: the other, but not both at the same time and in the same respect.
>: A thing (A) is either (A) or it is not (A).
>
>: /jack
>
>Hm.....
>
>PO An Answer between Yes and No (Edward de Bono)
>
>It is not the RULE, nor the symbol that is at fault. It is the insistance
>that it is a Law, and therefore applies to everything that is at fault.
>
Nonsense.  The law clearly states what it applies to and what it 
doesn't.  Wherever from did you get the notion that if something is a 
law it does apply to everything.

Mati Meron			| "When you argue with a fool,
meron@cars3.uchicago.edu	|  chances are he is doing just the same"
