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From: David E. Weldon, Ph.D. <David.E.Weldon@DaytonOH.ATTGIS.COM>
Subject: Re: Please give me your opinion about doubts !?
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@==========Hans-Peter Stoerr, 3/20/95==========
@
@In article <3kav88$mnr@ixnews2.ix.netcom.com> 
@drsnyder@ix.netcom.com (Tom Snyder) writes:
@
@> Hans-Peter:
@> 
@> 	You write, "there are probably no absolute truths."
@> 
@> 	Is that an absolute truth and do you believe it 
@absolutely?
@
@How can a sentence with "probably" in it be an absolute truth? At 
@least it gives
@a hint I do not mean it absolutely. But my reaction to anyone 
@claiming to state
@an absolute truth is immediate doubt. And I can't remember any 
@example where
@this reaction was wrong.
@
@Of course, the sentence "There are no absolute truths" is
@self-contradictory. But you can't draw the conclusion "So there 
@must be an
@absolute truth", because you'd have to assume everything is 
@either wrong or
@false. This holds not even in binary logic (thinking of Goedels 
@conclusions),
@and in real life it's even worse.
@
@An example for an actual real life absolute truth, anyone?
@
@Haps
@--
@            Hans-Peter "Haps" Stoerr (haps@inf.tu-dresden.de)
@                        Life is but an illusion.
@To care is not to care, to aim is not to aim. Everything is on it's 
@way.
@                 WWW: http://www.inf.tu-dresden.de/~hs3
@
@
Here are just a few:

1.  Over half the people who ever lived are alive now.
2.  White is not the same as Black
3.  People who have AIDS Die.
4.  All living things die eventually.
5.  The sun rises every morning.
6.  The wages of Sin is death.
The declaration of independence contains a few more, but I won't belabor the
point.

