#contradiction — Public Fediverse posts
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La joie sans objet
On constatera dans ce processus que tous les problèmes et tous les conflits ont pour cause une vision fragmentaire. À mesure que notre vision est moins fragmentaire et par conséquent plus globale, nous voyons les contradictions se réduire en oppositions et les oppositions s'atténuer peu à peu pour devenir des complémentarités.Les complémentarités apparaissent alors comme des aspects de l'unité. Arrivé à ce point on est à la dernière étape. On se trouve devant une unité […] -
USA: Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
Also USA: Here, take these weapons that I know you'll use to kill civilians.
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Aaaaaaaargh, AliExpress sellers will give me an aneurysm one of these days.
Slide switches are not toggle switches.
Toggle switches are not rocker switches.
Rocker switches are not toggle switches.
Rocker switches are also not slide switches.
"Momentary latching switch" is Not A Thing.#AliExpress #terminology #CloseEnough #description #NotAThing #contradiction #electronics #components #parts
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But you were so utterly devoid of sense, that throughout the whole of your speech you were disputing with yourself, saying things which not only were inconsistent with each other, but involved direct contradiction and opposition, so that the contest was not so much between you and me as between Antonius and Antonius.
[Tam autem eras excors, ut tota in oratione tua tecum ipse pugnares, non modo non cohaerentia inter se diceres, sed maxime disiuncta atque contraria, ut non tanta mecum quanta tibi tecum esset contentio.]Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Philippics [Philippicae; Antonian Orations], No. 2, ch. 8 / sec. 18 (2.8/2.18.7) (44-10-24 BC) [tr. King (1877)]More info about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #cicero #argument #contradiction #debate #dispute #incoherence #inconsistency #rhetoric #selfcontradiction #selfdefeat #speech
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Here's a piece in my Substack discussing St. Anselm's reasonings about what an omnipotent God can't do and why that would be the case
https://gregorybsadler.substack.com/p/anselm-of-canterbury-on-divine-power
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#GregoryChaitin - Is #Mathematics #Eternal?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KEuylDsONxo
#Philosophy #PhilosophyOfScience #PhilosophyOfMathematics #Science #Math #Maths #Cantor #Ramanujan #SetTheory #God #Spirituality #Beauty #Transcendence #Numbers #Contradiction #Logic #Poincaré #Poincare #Euler #CloserToTruth #RobertKuhn