RE: [evol-psych] Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid (fwd)

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Jan 08 2003 - 21:38:44 MST

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> spike66 wrote:
>> Damien Broderick wrote:
>>
>>>> William McGuire
>>>> once said, "the opposite of a great truth is also a great
>>>> truth")
>>>
>>> Is that a great truth?
>>
>> All truth is great.
>
> However, the comment "the opposite of a great truth
> is also a great truth" is neither great nor the truth.
>
> spike

I think it's just something people like to believe after they lose an
argument.

-gts

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