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A walking contradiction (Posted on 2015-03-20) Difficulty: 4 of 5
Avicenna,(a Medieval Philosopher, born c. 980 A.D.) was regarded as one of the most significant thinkers of the Islamic Golden Age.
He maintained, inter alia, that in the physical world a certain phenomenon either exists or does not exist; - the contradictory duality being excluded.
One of his famous sayings is quoted below, albeit all its words are given in alphabetical order:

admits and and Anyone as as be be be be be beaten beaten beaten, burned burned burned. contradiction denies he is is law non- not not not not of same same should that the the the to to to to until who

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Anyone who denies the law of non-contradiction should be beaten and burned until he admits that to be beaten is not the same as not to be beaten, and to be burned is not the same as not to be burned."
(Avicenna)

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