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Limits of Logic

Jewish Philosophy with Rabbi Dr. Dovid Gottlieb

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What Is a Linguistic Contradiction?

To find that something happened contrary to what we have always expected is not a contradiction. In words, it contradicts our experience. We often learn new things that contradict the experience that we have always had. So there's no somthing, no connection whatever, between he water rising up spontaneously and square circles. Square circle is the same linguistic contradiction. And the other is a matter of something that doesn't accord with our natural experience of how the world works.

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