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**Tactattcahhaw** · 06-07-2011, 03:25 AM

The Law of Contradiction is an expression of the fact that all cognition is dichotomizing and relative. We can only cognize or determine a thing by opposing it to what it is not.
This is an assertion, a speculative view, not a law. The Buddha spoke of such speculations as "a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views. It is accompanied by suffering, distress, despair, & fever, and it does not lead to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation; to calm, direct knowledge, Awakening, Nibbana."

06-07-2011, 03:25 AM	#17
Tactattcahhaw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 564 Senior Member	The Law of Contradiction is an expression of the fact that all cognition is dichotomizing and relative. We can only cognize or determine a thing by opposing it to what it is not. This is an assertion, a speculative view, not a law. The Buddha spoke of such speculations as "a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views. It is accompanied by suffering, distress, despair, & fever, and it does not lead to disenchantment, dispassion, cessation; to calm, direct knowledge, Awakening, Nibbana."
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