Dear gharnett:

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Q is the following proposition: "Two car crashes, one in
Ausralia and another in America, are correctly claimed
by one party to be simultaneous and by another not
simultaneous." I noticed no rebuttal showing that the
terms "simultaneous" and "not simultaneous" in this
proposition are not contradictory.

"one party" = "simultaneous"
"another [party]" = "not simultaneous"

Not contradictory, since it is two different situations. Two
different observers, and two different measurements (namely the
separation in time of the *observation* of the two events, one
zero separation, one non-zero separation).

David A. Smith