# Understanding: a way of seeing

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/understanding-a-way-of-seeing/410830>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [July 7, 2007, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/understanding-a-way-of-seeing/410830 "2007-07-07T09:55:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![rayh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e79b87/32.png) [@rayh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rayh)\
**Post date:** [July 8, 2007, 11:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/understanding-a-way-of-seeing/410830/41 "2007-07-08T11:48:59Z")

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[QUOTE=Revenant Threshold]  
I admit I know very little about Godel’s theory (seriously, i’ve just looked it up from your post). As I understand it though, I think the idea is that we cannot be sure which option is true. I agree with that. I’m simply saying that something can only ever be _p_ or _not p_. There aren’t any other options, and one must be true. \*Which \* is true is of course more difficult, but I’m not claiming to know which is.

Unless i’ve entirely misunderstood this, which most likely I have.  
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Your statements just reminded me about Godel’s Theory, so I just posted that as a bit of light-hearted relief. But having said that I have to point out that some systems of logic reject the law of the excluded middle.

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