Originally Posted by
O'Searcaigh
Formally (syntactically) yes, whether the meaning of '
is' is an is of attribution (material implication) or is an is of identity (bi-conditional) because “that that is '
is' is that that is
not '
not is'
if and only if that that is '
not is' is that that is
not '
is'” -- otherwise known as the “
Law of Transposition.” However, informally (semantically) it all depends on what the meanings of all the is’s are and especially if the ‘is not’ is an is not of specific denial or an is not of nothingness and hence semantically open to a fallacy of ambiguity (equivocation). At least that’s my take on it as a student of nothing!
You SO just reminded me of the "Romans, go home!" scene, from "The Life of Brian". LOL
Last edited by unixken; 13th August 13 at 03:29 PM.
KEN CORMACK
Clan Buchanan
U.S. Coast Guard, Retired
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio, USA
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