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Please read the linked article again. Any statement made about members of the empty set is trivially true. This is also known as the Principle of Explosion[1]
by redthrowaway 10y ago
Please read the linked article again. Any statement made about members of the empty set is trivially true. This is also known as the Principle of Explosion[1]. It's not lying; it's formal logic. Some further reading: http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/137890/why-is-it-sensical-for-a-proposition-with-a-false-antecedent-to-validate-to-true http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/137890/why-is-it-sen...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_explosion