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A beautiful definition.

Posted on February 16, 2008 by Shailen Sobhee — Leave a comment
A few days back, I was reading about Philosophy as my daily reading on wikipedia. And since one links leads to another, I came across a beautiful article about truth, passing via articles on epistemology, Einstein, Moore’s paradox, the film ‘Fight Club’, amongst another. I was also inspired by the laws and concept of propositional logic, and probably why I decided to quote this beautiful definition on my blog. The sentence is too beautiful not to paste here:

The Aristotelian definition of truth states:

“To say of something which is that it is not, or to say of something which is not that it is, is false. However, to say of something which is that it is, or of something which is not that it is not, is true.”



Does that make sense to you?

PS: Read it twice, you’ll see the meaning..Your comments..

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Shailen is a Technical Consulting Engineer at Intel Corporation. He has a Master degree in Computational Science and Engineering from the Technical University of Munich and a Bachelor degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Jacobs Univerity Bremen. Shailen has conducted research in power modelling for HPC applications and has high interests in the mobile sector. At Intel, Shailen is responsible for the Intel Integrated Native Developer Experience (INDE) suite of software for mobile developers. Shailen comes from the beautiful island of Mauritius. He has a LinkedIn and a Xing profile. Lastly, his name is unique in the world and he admires Bill Gates.

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