{"id":11951,"date":"2009-12-29T07:48:32","date_gmt":"2009-12-29T07:48:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/29\/a-contrarian-i-once-knew\/"},"modified":"2009-12-29T07:48:32","modified_gmt":"2009-12-29T07:48:32","slug":"a-contrarian-i-once-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/29\/a-contrarian-i-once-knew\/","title":{"rendered":"A Contrarian I Once Knew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"justify\" class=\"firstinpost\"><font face=\"Georgia\">I once knew a highly contrary fellow. But he was intelligent and interesting and I enjoyed talking with him on occasion. If I asserted proposition <em>p<\/em>, he would more likely than not assert <em>not-p<\/em>. If I asserted <em>not-p<\/em>, then I could expect to hear the assertion of <em>p<\/em>.<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">One day I said, &quot;You know, John, you are a really contrary fellow!&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><font face=\"Georgia\">He shot back, &quot;No I\u2019m not!&quot;<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I once knew a highly contrary fellow. But he was intelligent and interesting and I enjoyed talking with him on occasion. If I asserted proposition p, he would more likely than not assert not-p. If I asserted not-p, then I could expect to hear the assertion of p. One day I said, &quot;You know, John, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2009\/12\/29\/a-contrarian-i-once-knew\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Contrarian I Once Knew&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-human-predicament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11951"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}