On Oct 2, 8:03 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve +comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > By the way, who removed the OT label from the subject line? Please don't > unless it actually comes back on topic. > > DevPlayer wrote: > > I still assert that contradiction is caused by narrow perspective. > > There's no doubt that some *apparent* contradictions are caused by lack of > correct information. But: > > N is an even number; > N (the same N, for avoidance of doubt) is an odd number > > is still a contradiction, no matter how you look at it.
DevPlayer is probably talking of 'synthetic/a posteriori' statements You're changing it to 'analytic/a priori' (like the OT subject line <wink>) (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%E2%80%93synthetic_distinction#Kant ) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list