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November 26, 2020

 



 Still ruined?






Consider, for the sake of argument, the contrary.


"Thanksgiving [is not] ruined."


However, logically we must go all the way, ruthlessly to negate all components of the proposition.


"[Everything other than Thanksgiving] [is not] [in a non-ruined state]."


Which of course resolves itself into:


"[Non-Thanksgiving] [is ruined]."



Of course, to be ruined, Non-Thanksgiving must first exist and be.



But to consider the contrary of this, as in turn of course we must, means:


"[Thanksgiving] must [not be]."



Therefore Thanksgiving must simultaneously exist and not exist.


This is a contradictory dead end, a logical impossibility.



So to return to square one, to our initial hypothetical:


"Thanksgiving [is not] ruined."

 


If we put aside the merely contingent, accidental property of "ruined"-ness, we are left with:


"Thanksgiving [is not]."


Thus returning us  to the same conclusion:  Thanksgiving both exists and does not exist.  Unpossible!



It seems, then, that our initial hypothetical, above, of Thanksgiving's non-ruinedness, therefore must be totally rejected a priori


Still -- and forever -- ruined?



[TiR insists to the reader that the above contains absolutely no fallacies or errors of reasoning whatsoever, we asuuuure you.]





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