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is a category, a category of understanding which science must come to clearly understand as defined by it not being capable of being understood.

Kant's theory of radical evil has only one flaw, that he does not firmly determine that the inexplicable is a category, that the paradox is a category. Everything turns on this. For people have continually said this sort of thing: that to say that one cannot understand something or other does not satisfy scholarly science, which wishes to grasp things conceptually. This is the seat of the error... one must say precisely the opposite: that if human scholarly science will not acknowledge that there is something it cannot understand'or, to be even more exact, something concerning which it clearly understands that it cannot understand'then everything is confused.

is a necessary result of reflection and a man without paradoxes is a man with only prejudices.

Ordinary readers, forgive my paradoxes: one must make them when one reflects... and whatever you may say, I prefer being a man with paradoxes than a man with prejudices. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

prejudice

reflection (thought)

is a teleological operation aiming at a perfect state of enriched common sense.

If paradoxes are teleological operations aiming at a perfect state, then this state could be described as enriched common sense. However, it may be more rewarding to ask whether the assumption of a natural end is adequate or whether we are not observing a discovery that, like Kant's final cause without finality, is inherently paradoxical.6 The rhetorical paradox, then, may be an autological operation, infecting itself with whatever is a paradox.( Luhman 'paradoxy' 39)

common sense

is nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

thought

embryo

is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions, it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

is a thing where, if time is introduced, it turns into an oscillation. For example, if you ask a computer ' a Greek says Greeks always lie. Does he tell the truth'' You get: Yes-no-yes-no-yes-no-yes-no.

If time is introduced, the paradox turns into an oscillation. Similarly, if you program a computer to solve one of the classical paradoxes of Aristotelian logic-e.g., a Greek says: 'Greeks always lie.' Does he tell the truth' the computer will give the answer YES-NO-YES-NO-YES-NO . .turning the paradox into an oscillation. (capra on bateson 'uncommon wisdom' 80)

The truest sayings are paradoxical -Lao Tzu

truth

is the authentic pathos of the true intellectual life, nothing other than grandiose thoughts, not yet fully developed.

The paradox is the authentic pathos of the intellectual life, and just as only great souls are susceptible to passions, so are only great thinkers susceptible to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing other than grandiose thoughts, not yet fully developed.

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