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The Law of Contradiction, Otherness and Excluded Middle
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06-07-2011, 03:42 AM
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Light and darkness is such an example as each is a complete negation of the other. They cannot peacefully co-exist in close proximity with each other. I am looking at a shadow on the floor. Please show me the turmoil that this shadow is going through, the battle between light and darkness. Should I not step too close, lest I be hit by stray bullets?
They appear and disappear due to the totally of causes. This is the Buddhist theory of causation. The Law of Excluded Middle also fully applied here as well. Please show in the Nikayas where the Buddha taught
idappaccayata
(causality) this way. Please show where the Buddha teaches your "Law of the Excluded Middle" and a "fight between absolute light and absolute darkness".
In real phenomena, there is always something in the middle. If light appears all of a sudden, there is always an intermediate moment of twilight between darkness and light. You contradict your own assertion. And the shadows, you forgot about the shadows....
This is different in the case of logical opposition between light and non-light, the opposition is complete without an intermediate twilight moment. Perhaps you mean "sophistry" rather than "logic".
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