No Absolutes

“There are no absolutes.”

“I agree. You are absolutely correct!”

A sentence can be grammatical, but still illogical. Making an absolute statement that denies absolutes is self-defeating nonsense.

Turn it back a notch and then you’ve maybe got something.

“It would seem there are very few absolutes.”

There, now that’s a safer thing to say, but couched as it is in qualifications, it comes off as weak.


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