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20 Crazy Jane Sleeps on Page C of the Logician’s Dictionary Crazy Jane wakes up feeling contumacious. She’s tired of listening to the birds’ contentious chatter. She knows they are spreading rumors about her. How can she confute their calumny? She learned once in school about contradictions:The ball is on the floor.The ball is not on the floor. If one is true, the other must be false. If Jane slept last night in her own bed, she did not sleep in the priest’s bed. Or she could employ logical contraries— all of the following may be false: there is a warm spot still in the priest’s rumpled bed; Crazy Jane has always loved the church; Jane said her prayers last night before climbing into her own bed. However, if one of these statements is true, the others must be false. And who but Jane is to say whether she remembered her prayers last night and whether she whispered them into a priest’s ear? ...

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