>On Dec 1, 2007 8:28 PM, Shane Mage <shmage at pipeline.com> wrote:
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>> So, to put it as simply as possible, contradiction is a necessary component
>> not of physical reality (in which nothing is abstract or fixed) but of the
>> human understanding *insofar as it fully and truthfully corresponds
>> to objective reality.*
>>
>> Shane Mage
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>I've yet to read or hear a single expositor/defender of the
>correspondence theory of truth embrace contradiction as one of the
>theory's constitutive features. Please tell us of one, with quotes if
>you can find them at hand.
Plato, to start with. But "the correspondence theory of truth" is self-evident and can be denied only by sophists. That is why Plato deals with this subject precisely in the dialogue called "The Sophist."
Shane Mage
"This cosmos did none of gods or men make, but it always was and is and shall be: an everlasting fire, kindling in measures and going out in measures."
Herakleitos of Ephesos, fr. 30