Latest tagged entries for 'CONTRADICTION'



A Brief Note

Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:15 P GMT-05
There's more to be said, but for now, thanks for stopping by, and I'll see you around, distinguished ladies and gentlemen.

A Thing Can Be Multiple Things

Thursday, 31 July 2008 1:09 A GMT-05
Resolving all reality as distinction, we must find meaning and consequence within the one principle of distinction. We observe here that the diversity of a thing being both arbitrary and fixed is in fact the essence of meaning.

Reality as Naming

Saturday, 21 June 2008 1:12 A GMT-05
In this entry we return to the view of life as naming. Having indicated some tools in the exploration of other views in this series, we can now employ them in characterizing naming by showing the relation of naming to these other views.

Doing Yet Discovering

Thursday, 22 May 2008 12:36 A GMT-05
In present wings we externalize our internally produced reality to investigate the nature of knowledge, cause-effect and the mind-body problem.

Choice, Self and the External World

Monday, 21 April 2008 8:55 P GMT-05
We consider choice and the distinction between the internal and external world from the views of distinction as naming and as contradiction.

Taking Together

Monday, 24 March 2008 4:06 A GMT-05
We will look here at another view of distinction, one that doesn't grapple with contradiction, by removing the primacy of truth and falsity. The fundamental element of this view is naming.

Contradiction as Distinction

Thursday, 31 August 2006 11:30 P GMT-05
How do we make sense of the paradoxes of philosophical logic in the larger picture of philosophy as a whole? We explore here how distinction is related to the reason of philosophical logic and where contradiction relates the two.

A View on Existence

Friday, 18 August 2006 11:34 P GMT-05
Is accepting contradiction as actual possible. It is not obvious. It sounds wrong, by definition. How could so much history pass with so much being missed?

Possibility from Impossibility

Monday, 31 July 2006 9:24 P GMT-05
We consider here the thesis that the impossibility of life is what gives life possibility.

Fantastic and Rational

Friday, 14 July 2006 11:38 P GMT-05
Accepting the irrational sounds contradictory, as it must, but most of us, if not all of us, already understand this and operate within irrationality's strange rules of reason, even while we pretend we don't—as also we must.

The Strange and Beautiful

Wednesday, 31 May 2006 11:43 P GMT-05
Why this, why now, why? Common questions when we are faced with seemingly arbitrary facts. When circumstances seem particular yet not compelled by some organizing principle, we become wary that we don't understand all at play.

Being Free

Friday, 12 May 2006 11:45 P GMT-05
Just how strong are we? How free? Can we overcome the limitations on us? We might be tempted to consider all impositions as being of our own making. This would secure for us triumph over all our conflicts, complete freedom.

The Magical

Friday, 28 April 2006 11:46 P GMT-05
Is magic real? Being defined as the supernatural, it clearly is not natural, and so no, it is not real. But with contradictions present in so many very real distinctions in our lives, we might expect the magical to be present in a very real sense.

All Is Right

Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:48 P GMT-05
In order to see how all is good we will first see how all that is not good is not so bad after all. When we understand this no conflict is too great and our virtuosity in achieving good things is uncontested.

Conflict

Sunday, 26 February 2006 11:57 A GMT-05
Life is a contradiction. And this isn't bad, this is explanatory. Understanding this allows us to overcome the biggest contradiction in each of our lives: conflict.