Re: MD Logic of contradictory identity

From: Case (Case@iSpots.com)
Date: Sat Sep 17 2005 - 17:17:05 BST

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    Scott,
    The Klein bottle is an example of a surface that really does not have a
    front and back or an inside and outside. It is a more complicated version of
    a Mobius strip which is a piece of paper with only one side.
    How do the Laws of Form treat logical paradoxes. I thought it was kind of a
    condensed version of the Principia Mathematica. Both were over my head.
    Case

    > Case,
    >
    > Yes, a Klein bottle is a much closer analogy. I note, though, that it is
    > still only an analogy, in that the contradictory status only applies if we
    > insist that all surfaces have a front and a back (or if closed, have an
    > inside and an outside). Hence, in this case, as with logical paradoxes,
    > one
    > can expand one's conceptual space so that the case becomes understandable
    > (e.g., with topology in the Klein bottle case -- see G. Spencer Brown's
    > Laws
    > of Form for a way to deal with logical paradoxes.) Whether there is an
    > expansion that can encompass CI I don't know. It would, at the least, look
    > mystical to us -- see the F. Merrell-Wolff quote for instance.
    >
    > - Scott

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