David:

What the LoI says is that you can't talk about two things contradicting or about two things being exclusive of each other until you have affirmed what that thing is that you're talking about. It is what it is, and you have to deal with it as it is, and then it also becomes clear that it is not something else, or cannot be warped or morphed into something else just by talking about it. It either is or it isn't what it is.

This is the layman's version of it. Brian's version is more definitive. Once you get the hang of it, then you can hardly say it any other way anymore.

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John Vandervliet
Ontario, Canada
member of: Canadian Reformed Church
"In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are" C.S Lewis, An Experiment in Criticism