Posted by sigismund on August 5, 2010, at 15:49:59
In reply to Re: Why Is Babble Not Babbling? » sigismund, posted by Dinah on August 5, 2010, at 8:13:09
>Cognitive dissonance makes me feel very anxious.
So you would perhaps not be keen on following two courses at once?
>When we wear out our minds, stubbornly clinging to one partial view of things, refusing to see a deeper agreement between this and its complentary opposite, we have what is called 'three in the morning'.>The truly wise man, considering both sides of the question without partiality, sees them both in the light of Tao.
This is called following two courses at once.I wonder how you would feel about something woolly like Hegel. (Not that I've bothered with him myself.) At least one of the academics being satirised in Alice in Wonderland would have been a Hegelian. Anyway, here is the relevant quote
>Oh, don't go on like that!' cried the poor Queen, wringing her hands in despair. `Consider what a great girl you are. Consider what a long way you've come to-day. Consider what o'clock it is. Consider anything, only don't cry!'
>Alice could not help laughing at this, even in the midst of her tears. `Can you keep from crying by considering things?' she asked.
>`That's the way it's done,' the Queen said with great decision: `nobody can do two things at once, you know. Let's consider your age to begin with -- how old are you?'
>`I'm seven and a half, exactly.'
>`You needn't say "exactly",' the Queen remarked. `I can believe it without that. Now I'll give you something to believe. I'm just one hundred and one, five months and a day.'
>`I ca'n't believe that!' said Alice.
>`Ca'n't you?' the Queen said in a pitying tone. `Try again: draw a long breath, and shut your eyes.'
>Alice laughed. `There's no use trying,' she said `one ca'n't believe impossible things.'
>`I daresay you haven't had much practice,' said the Queen. `When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. There goes the shawl again!'
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