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Message: [QUOTE="Neil Cerutti, post: 4248599"] You are not alone. Many ancient philosophers, fathers of religious and scientific thought, thought the same. They thought that contradictory qualities could exist in objects simultaneously. For example, they thought that a cat was both big and small, because it was big compared to a mouse and small compared to a house. They didn't notice that big and small were not poperties of the cat, at all but were instead statements about how a cat relates to another object. When you say, "It is night," you are making an assertion about a position on the surface of the earth and its relationship to the sun. If you are not discussing a specific a position on the Earth, then you cannot make a meaningful assertion about night or day at all. Night and Day are not qualities of the entire Earth, but only of positions on the Earth. [/QUOTE]