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Originally Posted by austintorn@aol.com  Are some entities so separate that none of one could ever be in the other?
Color wheel opposites?
Church and State?
Something and Nothing (in the absolute)?
On and off? |
I have a hard time with these black and white puzzles, Austin. The color scheme, for instance, is not a wheel but a globe. North and South pole are black and white with the colors banded in the middle on the equator, becoming lighter in one direction, darker in the other. But even that is not fully satisfying, since black (which is scientifically the absence of light) is the opposite of any other color, not just white. The absence of light is already the oppposite of any kind of light of any kind of color.
The pentaist pyramid shows a whole in opposition to the parts, and within the parts there are two parts out of four that are clearly oppositional (like yes and no) and two that are gradually oppositional (like young and old).
If we take the old division of air, water, earty, and fire, then it's obvious that fire and water cannot be in one and the same place, but all four can exist without one of them becoming extinct. Same goes for matter and anti-matter; they're oppositional, but they belong in a larger scheme that is not just oppositional.