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Comment author: Caledonian2 06 August 2008 04:21:12AM 0 points [-]

If statements which are not testable are meaningless, then the statement "Statements which are not testable are meaningless" is meaningless.

Only if "Statements which are not testable are meaningless" isn't testable.

Can you show it to be untestable? Or is there a way you might check?