What they are is antinomies of (somewhat) pure reason, a contradiction in the way the human mind understands causality (infinite regress vs. everything having a first cause).
--- On Fri, 2/20/09, Wojtek Sokolowski <swsokolowski at yahoo.com> wrote:
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> talk past each other, because their differfences are not
> rational but pre-rational: they are grounded in their
> emotional makeup and cannot be solved through reasoning or
> facts.
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> Wojtek
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