How is the question of the colour of your shirt of any relevance to the question of belief of "eating W"? — MathematicalPhysicist
To your question the answer is "I don't know", while the answer to do you believe I ate or do you believe I didn't eat has a definite answer; while to your question there are more than two options, it's not binary, either 0 or 1. — MathematicalPhysicist
It has no answer because it is a false dichotomy. The question presupposes that one either believes W or one believes ~W. It erroneously omits the possibility that one could believe neither. It also omits the somewhat more controversial possibility that one could believe both. One can debate whether that last is possible. But it nevertheless needs to be included in the quartet, to complete the analysis.the answer to do you believe I ate or do you believe I didn't eat has a definite answer — MathematicalPhysicist
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