I contradict myself, which means that I am always right

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The person who makes all the contradictory statements logically must be right in one of them.

I understand that not all people are familiar with Hegel's dialectics, which say that arguing opposite premises by default means one is right, thus truth is said.

I will extend more on Hegel in the next topic. This one is just to explain why complete contradiction means that person has said the truth. Thus, contradiction is a proof of being right.
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In order to be right you have to IDENTIFY which answer is right. If you just say everything then you aren't right even if one of those things is right because you still don't know which one is right.
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you still don't know which one is right.
One must be right, so by saying all options, I ensure that I have said at least one true claim, so one is right for sure even if I dont know which one is right.
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And there is no point if you don't have the ability to actually identify which claims are correct, much less prove them.
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@FishChaser
And there is no point
The point is that one of my claims must be correct no matter what. Thus, when I contradict myself, it is the proof that I have told the truth.
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And there is no point
The point is that one of my claims must be correct no matter what. Thus, when I contradict myself, it is the proof that I have told the truth
When every one of your ten claims turn out right, you are wrong more often than you are right.
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When every one of your ten claims turn out right, you are wrong more often than you are right.
Most things can be sorted in a binary option, so its 50:50.

Still, even if I was wrong 90% of the time, it would mean I am right 10% of the time. So when I contradict myself, it is still proof that something I said is true.
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When every one of your ten claims turn out right, you are wrong more often than you are right.
Most things can be sorted in a binary option, so its 50:50.

Still, even if I was wrong 90% of the time, it would mean I am right 10% of the time. So when I contradict myself, it is still proof that something I said is 
When you contradict yourself you are only right 10% of the time. So the majority of the time you are wrong.Nothing to brag about.
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Its better to know that something you said was true for sure, than to never be certain if you told the truth.
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It’s better to know that something you said was true for sure, than to never be certain if you told the truth.
It is better to not say anything than to be wrong 9 out of 10 times.
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It is better to not say anything than to be wrong 9 out of 10 times.
If you say nothing, then you havent said anything true. So then there is 0% of truth spoken.
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It is better to not say anything than to be wrong 9 out of 10 times.
If you say nothing, then you havent said anything true. So then there is 0% of truth spoken.
That is your other problem wrong 9 out of 10 times or 0% truth spoken.
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Hedging your bets depends on the situation. What are the consequences of being right, and are they outweighed by the consequences of being wrong? Are you gambling? Day trading?
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Hedging your bets depends on the situation. What are the consequences of being right, and are they outweighed by the consequences of being wrong? Are you gambling? Day trading?
He is going by pure statistics.
Still, even if I was wrong 90% of the time, it would mean I am right 10% of the time. So when I contradict myself, it is still proof that something I said is true.

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Statistics are meaningless without consequences. How is 90% "good" or "bad" on its own? Lol
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Hedging your bets depends on the situation. What are the consequences of being right, and are they outweighed by the consequences of being wrong? Are you gambling? Day trading?
In intellectual warfare, the consequences of being right is that truth is produced. The consequences of being wrong is that truth is reduced.
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So by being right 10% of the time and wrong 90% of the time, you're reducing total truth. Sounds like you should just say nothing.
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So by being right 10% of the time and wrong 90% of the time, you're reducing total truth. Sounds like you should just say nothing.
Saying nothing reduces truth from 10% to 0%.

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No, it increases truth from -80% to 0%. You already reduced truth more than you increased it.
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No, it increases truth from -80% to 0%. You already reduced truth more than you increased it.
If I say 10 claims and only one is true, that is 1 true claim.

If I say nothing, that is 0 true claims.

Thus, saying nothing produces as much truth as saying only wrong claims.
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Thus, saying nothing produces as much truth as saying only wrong claims.
No, because saying wrong claims could reduce truth that was created by other people. Or people could be misinformed, which is worse than being uninformed.
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No, because saying wrong claims could reduce truth that was created by other people.
That wouldnt reduce my truth at all. It could even improve my truth by learning their truth and making them disprove my false claims. Thus, my truth rises.

Or people could be misinformed, which is worse than being uninformed.
Both are same in terms of amount of truth. Person who knows nothing contains the same amount of truth as person who only knows incorrect claims.
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Thus, saying nothing produces as much truth as saying only wrong claims.
If you say nothing then no wrong claims have been made.
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If you say nothing then no wrong claims have been made.
No true claims either. So if goal is to speak more truth, being silent doesnt achieve the goal.
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If you say nothing then no wrong claims have been made.
No true claims either. So if goal is to speak more truth, being silent doesnt achieve the goal
If the goal is to speak more truth, being silent about wrong claims achieves the goal.
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A lot of people say I look like Hegal.
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A lot of people say I look like Hegal.
Karl Marx spent plenty of time studying Hegel. Karl Marx's dialectical materialism is mostly based on Hegel's dialectics. Only Hegel applied dialectics in ideas and reaching truth, where Marx realized that dialectics dont apply to just ideas and words, but to human relations as well as conditions in society. This discovery was revolutionary, because while Hegel applied and observed contradictions in ideas and the eventual win of one idea over another, Karl Marx saw contradiction between worker class and capitalist class in a capitalist society, and reached conclusion that the struggle between them can only have one victor or common demise of both.
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No true claims either. So if goal is to speak more truth, being silent doesnt achieve the goal.
Well speaking achieves it worse if the untruth outweighs the truth. If your truth is +10 and your untruth is -90, you've achieved the opposite of what you want.
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Well speaking achieves it worse if the untruth outweighs the truth. If your truth is +10 and your untruth is -90, you've achieved the opposite of what you want.
That depends on how you measure.

Silence negates truth as well.

If you go by percentage of truth, or ratio of truth to non-truth, silence has no different effect from incorrect claims. Both reduce ratio of truth to non-truth.
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Silence negates truth as well.
No, it doesn't add or subtract truth. Lying subtracts truth.