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"Can't be true?  Well, if it can't be true that something is false, that would make it a necessary truth, I suppose.  Dath ilan might imagine that it'd managed to deduce what was true in all planes if it couldn't be false.  But if for that reason you can't tell me what you expect to see, what to have happen to you, as a consequence, how does your necessary truth really mean anything?  After all, if it meant only some things could happen to you, but not others, it would cease to be true if you traveled to a plane where other things happened to you instead.  So whatever is true no matter what happens to you, never helps you figure out what will happen to you; and therefore, is absolutely useless.  Now I have just proven to you that all necessary truths are absolutely useless.  And some of you have suggested that math is made of necessary truths.  So have you just proved that math is absolutely useless, since, whatever happens to you, it can't make math false, and therefore math can never say anything about what actually happens?"

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"Can't be true?  Well, if it can't be true that something is false, that would make it a necessary truth, I suppose.  Dath ilan might imagine that it'd managed to deduce what was true in all planes, if it couldn't be false.  But if for that reason you can't tell me what you expect to see, what to have happen to you, as a consequence, how does your necessary truth really mean anything?  After all, if it meant only some things could happen to you, but not others, it would cease to be true if you traveled to a plane where other things happened to you instead.  So whatever is true no matter what happens to you, never helps you figure out what will happen to you; and therefore, is absolutely useless.  Now I have just proven to you that all necessary truths are absolutely useless.  And some of you have suggested that math is made of necessary truths.  So have you just proved that math is absolutely useless, since, whatever happens to you, it can't make math false, and therefore math can never say anything about what actually happens?"

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"Can't be true?  Well, if it can't be true that something is false, that would make it a necessary truth, I suppose.  Dath ilan might imagine that it'd managed to deduce what was true in all planes, if it couldn't be false.  But if for that reason you can't tell me what you expect to see, what will happen to you, as a consequence, does your necessary truth really mean anything?  After all, if it meant only some things could happen to you, but not others, it would cease to be true if you traveled to a plane where other things happened to you instead.  So whatever is true no matter what happens to you, never helps you figure out what will happen to you; and, therefore, is absolutely useless.  Now I have just proven to you that all necessary truths are absolutely useless.  And some of you have suggested that math is made of necessary truths.  So have you just proved that math is absolutely useless, since, whatever could happen to you, that wouldn't make math false, and therefore math can never say anything about what will happen?"