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Subject: A quick agreement


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Ben
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Date Posted: 12/20/02 8:48pm
In reply to: Wade A. Tisthammer 's message, "It's where you are at right now." on 12/15/02 10:56pm


>I don’t see how. Hairless men by definition
>have no hair. What are hairless men? People who have
>no hair. Thus, the fact that hairless men have no
>hair is true by definition. The conclusion naturally
>flows from the essence of the terms involved. “If a
>man has no hair, then that man has no hair.” This is
>an objective truth. It cannot possibly be false. The
>consequent logically must follow from the antecedent.


For the record, I agree. This statement is true by definition, and therefore, at least in my understanding, axiomatic. Mathematical expressions are also true by definition. Jumping from these types of axioms to other ideas such as immorality is a huge leap, I think, but I wanted to be sure you knew where I stood on these more fundamental points.

Ben

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