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Subject: Re: definition of  cognitive dissonance
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Date: 5 Feb 90 21:07:47 GMT
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Dave Cunningham writes (Sat, 3 Feb 90 16:27:00 PST):
>The definition can get long winded, especially when people start giving
>examples of types, or start sketching it out as set theory, but essentially
>it means believing something is both True and False at the same time.
>Dave
There is at least one counter-example: quantum physics. It is both True
and False that a quantum object is a wave, both True and False that it
is a corpuscle.
(This was a joke! Nothing to do with the current discussion).
                                                 Jean-Pierre Pharabod