Chaos Theory [was Re: Benefit and belief]

[rusi]

On Oct 2, 8:03 am, Steven D'Aprano <steve
+comp.lang.pyt... at pearwood.info> wrote:
> By the way, who removed the OT label from the subject line? Please don't
> unless it actually comes back on topic.
>
> DevPlayer wrote:
> > I still assert that contradiction is caused by narrow perspective.
>
> There's no doubt that some *apparent* contradictions are caused by lack of
> correct information. But:
>
> N is an even number;
> N (the same N, for avoidance of doubt) is an odd number
>
> is still a contradiction, no matter how you look at it.

DevPlayer is probably talking of 'synthetic/a posteriori' statements
You're changing it to 'analytic/a priori' (like the OT subject line
<wink>)
(see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analytic%E2%80%93synthetic_distinction#Kant
)