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[Akvod]

badgenome said:

Akvod said:

CommonMan said:

No, it's just that if there is an anything-est thread, Han wins.

If there were two threads, "Who's the best Star Wars Character" and who's the "Who's the worst Star Wars Character", how can Han win them both?

Principle of contradiction

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In logic, the Principle of contradiction (principium contradictionis in Latin) is the second of the so-called three classic laws of thought. The oldest statement of the law is that contradictory statements cannot both at the same time be true, e.g. the two propositions A is B and A is not B are mutually exclusive. A may be B at one time, and not at another; A may be partly B and partly not B at the same time; but it is impossible to predicate of the same thing, at the same time, and in the same sense, the absence and the presence of the same quality. This is the statement of the law given by Aristotle. It takes no account of the truth of either proposition; if one is true, the other is not; one of the two must be false.

In the symbolism of propositional logic, the principle is expressed as:

There is no "est" in "worst," therefore there is no contradiction.

They're both superlatives of the opposite things.