[MD] Everything/Nothing, or should I get a life?
MarshaV
marshalz at charter.net
Wed May 30 03:34:38 PDT 2007
At 10:48 PM 5/29/2007, Ian wrote:
>Marsha, Platt,
>
>That quote from Wilber is a favourite of mine. Part of my armoury
>against ignoring "excluded middles". It is so natural to divide things
>into two - every analytical cut creates two "opposites" from one
>whole, and it's so easily to forget and take this cut for granted.
>Making distinctions is indeed essential, but the implied opposites are
>entirely incidental.
>
>In fact every cut is just a thin dividing line drawn across a
>continuum, and the two halves need not be more than a hair's-breadth
>apart, even though theire extremes may be poles apart. (The northern
>and southern hemispheres seem distinct opposites, but half a degree
>north is every bit as equatorial as half a degree south.)
>
>Ian
Ian,
I'm trying to think about the process the individual (SPoVs) makes to
focus on this rather than that. It's very funny, you know, very
funny indeed.
Marsha
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