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To: Ohioan; PatrickHenry
What bothers me about this article is that it encourages people to see this as an "either or" situation

When framed this way, it often means that epistemological considerations are more valued than historical events. In logic, every proposition or term has an immediate opposite and the principle of non-contradictions says it can't be both. But negations are possible for anything, even truth. Obviously we can set up false dichotomies. Happily reality and human life is more than epistemology and saves us from the tyranny of logic.

289 posted on 12/12/2005 2:45:20 PM PST by cornelis
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To: cornelis
In logic, every proposition or term has an immediate opposite and the principle of non-contradictions says it can't be both.

Should I throw a monkey wrench into that with quantum physics, or should we not confuse things even more?

474 posted on 12/13/2005 5:33:50 AM PST by antiRepublicrat
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To: cornelis
tyranny of logic

The tyranny of logic is in its being locked within the extreme limitations imposed by attempts at verbalized reasoning. The difference between true reasoning--that is by scanning all of the observations of a lifetime, in relation to any subject--and the verbalized constructs of formalized logic, is the equivalent of the difference between the modern computer and an old adding machine.

The reality, easily observable, is that Creation involved the creation of creatures, with a built in tendency to evolve. Hence the idea of a conflict is absurd. (To deny the tendencies that God gave his Creatures, is to deny the reality of Creation. The quest, again, of both science and religion is the same: To find and by implication to celebrate the truth.)

William Flax Return Of The Gods Web Site

592 posted on 12/13/2005 10:34:20 AM PST by Ohioan
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