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http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/logic-of-buddhist-philosophy/ http://aeon.co/magazine/philosophy/logic-of-buddhist-philoso... found this on hn a while ago. Y

• pluma 12y ago
  This is why I can't take philosophy serious anymore. Examples like the "this statement is false" thing are just rife with equivocations and other blatant nonsense. Yes, there is such a thing as "neither true nor false", but every example for "both true and false" I've seen is based on lousy thinking and semantic games. Also, as a JS programmer, the distinction between true/false/neither/ineffable is very familiar (i.e.: true/false/null/undefined, null denoting the absence of a value and undefined denoting the absence of a definition -- though of course in practice the distinction is rarely necessary resulting in a lot of confusion and unnecessary double checks). It's got nothing to do with "mysticism". It's just arm chair linguistics.