> On Mar 24, 2012, at 2:56 AM, Dennis Claxton wrote:
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>> GINSBERG: That our own minds are so vast that we can wind up contradicting ourselves without having to freak out about it. It's very similar to what the poet John Keats said about negative capability. He said the quality of a very great poet like Shakespeare was his ability to contain opposite ideas in the mind without an irritable reaching out after fact and reason. Meaning that that part of the mind which judges, and irritably insists on either black or white, is only a small part of the mind. The larger mind observes the contradiction, and contains those contradictions. The mind that notices that it contradicts itself is bigger than the smaller mind that is taking one side or the other.
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> Super awesome stuff, thanks for sharing.
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So minds are a sort of container?
Lbo is creping up on the problems of paraconsistency?
Interested parties might want to peruse chapter 4 of Christopher Cherniak's "Minimal Rationality" on the issue Whitman was dealing with :-)
Ian