Hi Krimel --
Could please provide the specific reference to Cusanus?
There are many references to this theological philosopher/mathematician on
the Internet, including a translation from Latin of his Not-Other principle
("De Li Non Aliud"). Unfortunately, the quote I used from an essay by Prof.
Clyde Miller (Stony Brook University) was strangely not accessible when I
last tried the link on his personal website. Since this contains the exact
translation, I'll continue to search for it and will let you know when I've
recovered it.
A close approximation is this Cusa quote (in dialogue with a scholar named
Ferdinand) by Jasper Hopkins' "Nicholas of Cusa on God as Not-Other":
"You ought to observe that the reason why all the things which can
be spoken of or thought of are not the First (which is signified through
"Not-other") is that all these things are other than their respective
opposites.
But because God is not other than [any] other, He is Not-other,
although Not-other and other seem to be opposed. But other is not
opposed to that from which it has the fact that it is other, as I said.
You see now how it is that the theologians rightly affirmed that in all
things God is all things, even though [He is] none of these things."
-- http://cla.umn.edu/sites/jhopkins/NA12-2000.pdf
I would also recommend Thomas McFarlane's essay "Nicholas of Cusa and the
Infinite" at www.integralscience.org/cusa.html for background on the
historical development of this concept.
Regards,
Ham
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