Sunday, March 18, 2007

Hegel: what do you mean?

Hegel describes "The Law of Contradiction" -

"Everything is inherently contradictory. . . . contradiction is the root of all movement and vitality; it is only in so far as something has a contradiction within it that it moves, has an urge and activity. (page 439, Hegel's Science of Logic).
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So the law of contradiction is also a contradiction.
Then, I ask Hegel where is this law moving? ...could it move at all?

I think Hegel did not have enough coffee that day.

So would say that he meant real things, that he is not talking about a logical law...But didn't he believed that the real is rational, and the rational is real. So all logical laws must be real, and they move...

I am confussed...I'd better have more coffee.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

No truth

'There are no truth, only interpretations.'
Nietzsche.
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If Nietsche is correct, then the affirmation is false and Nietzsche is wrong.

If Nietzsche is wrong, there are truths and interpretations.

Probably Nietzche did not sleep well when he wrote that sentence. Let us attributed to lack of sleep.

Of course, we could accept it as true just by dumping reason. Could you live in an unreasonable universe? Of course, not.