QQC- Chapter 1

My theory is that all beliefs are equally true and cannot be denied.

Harry believes in a flying spaghetti monster that orbits the sun.

I deny the existence of the spaghetti monster.

But according the theory, Harry's belief is true AND my belief is true, yet we believe the opposite of each other. Harry thinks he's right and I think he's wrong. We can't both be right, so the theory must be wrong.

I found this particular part of the packet interesting because I thought it was an interesting way of looking at theories and how to prove them right and wrong. In context, Euclid, who was trying to prove the theory we now call "prime factors" was true, was trying to find an example that could prove it false in case he did something wrong - this quote was used to explain the method that he used to prove it wrong. I liked it because it was simple english, when the rest of the passage trying to explain what he was doing just seemed to be going around in circles and never getting anywhere. "This hypothetical number must be a product of at least two other numbers: a x b, and those numbers must not be prime" indeed.