Platt, Ian and Marsha, my reading this morn coincides with your discussion. I offer you in support of the idea that paradoxes are not anti-intellectual, but in fact, quite the opposite:
"The very existence of a paradox can be used to derive some interesting facts about the relationship between the mind and the universe. No one has made such a derivation as boldly as Borges: 'We (the undivided divinity operating within us) have dreamt the world. We have dreamt it as firm, mysterious, visible, ubiquitous in space and durable in time; but in its architecture we have allowed tenuous and external crevices of unreason which tell us it is false'. ... Rather than saying that the paradoxes indicate that the rational world is 'false', I would say that they indicate that it is *incomplete* -- that there is more to reality than meets the eye." Rudy Rucker, Infinity and the Mind, p 95, quoting Borges from Avatars of the Tortoise in *Labyrinths*. John in a hurry, wishing all a happy new year, On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 9:22 AM, Platt Holden <[email protected]> wrote: > Well Ian, if you find a way intellect can avoid paradox or infinite > regress, > I hope you will share your discovery. (I don't think intellect includes > intuitive or other nonconceptual experiences.) > > Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
