So this is an example of a statement that isn't just the case here and now, but also the case indefinitely. What did you assume to assert this?There's nothing wrong with that, no cause to stop theorising or throw logic away, but we assume it, we cannot prove it with itself. — Isaac
There cannot be sometimes absolute eternal facts. If it is sometimes absolute but not always, it is not eternally absolutely. If it is in some cases eternal, in others not, it is not absolutely eternal. If both hold and no other, it is an absolute eternal fact that there are no absolute eternal facts. Reductio ad absurdum there must be absolute eternal facts. — Kenosha Kid
I think if something is “absolutely true” it is not useful. For example “There cannot be a square circle” is absolutely true, but also completely obvious and useless information. The only things that can be true always are true by definition which makes them useless. — khaled
absolute truth is not the same thing as absolute fact. — Merkwurdichliebe
So this is an example of a statement that isn't just the case here and now, but also the case indefinitely. What did you assume to assert this? — Harry Hindu
Still a useless contradiction.So the formulation should be "it is an absolute eternal fact that there are (other than this one absolute eternal fact) no absolute eternal facts. — Janus
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