Book 29. (1 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Individual Quote)
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| 2 | 101 | For View more quotes about example">example, it is impossible to confute nonsense for it is neither true nor false, and that which is neither true nor false cannot be shown to be either. |
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Book 29. (7 results) Swordsmen of Gor (Context Quote)
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| 2 | 98 | Indeed, can they not find passages in their texts which hint of those very secrets, and other passages which allude to them in now-transparent metaphors? Claims to the effect, say, that ageing is, or is not, a disease are at least cognitive. |
| 2 | 99 | One can be right or wrong about them. |
| 2 | 100 | They should be distinguished from claims, or seeming claims, which are noncognitive, namely, which lack either truth or falsity. |
| 2 | 101 | For example, it is impossible to confute nonsense for it is neither true nor false, and that which is neither true nor false cannot be shown to be either. |
| 2 | 102 | The truth or falsity of such things is not hiding. |
| 2 | 103 | It just does not exist. |
| 2 | 104 | It must not be lost sight of in these matters, of course, that nonsense is often well armed. |
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Indeed, can they not find passages in their texts which hint of those very secrets, and other passages which allude to them in now-transparent metaphors? Claims to the effect, say, that ageing is, or is not, a disease are at least cognitive.
One can be right or wrong about them.
They should be distinguished from claims, or seeming claims, which are noncognitive, namely, which lack either truth or falsity.
For example, it is impossible to confute nonsense for it is neither true nor false, and that which is neither true nor false cannot be shown to be either.
The truth or falsity of such things is not hiding.
It just does not exist.
It must not be lost sight of in these matters, of course, that nonsense is often well armed.
- (Swordsmen of Gor)