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3 free verse poem The absurdity of reality-via Aristotelian logic All thinking via Aristotelian logic leads to the absurdity, or the meaninglessness of all views This case study is meant to give weight to the demonstration that all conceptualisations, all products of thinking collapse into absurdity, or meaninglessness if Aristotelian logic is an epistemic condition of truth which this thesis denies

4 Aristotelian logic contradicts the real world. There are phenomena in the real world which according to the law of non-contradiction can not be there-yet they are ie the wave-particle nature of light. Here is another phenomenon which is there, does exist and contradicts the law of noncontradiction These phenomena show the limits of Aristotelian logic With Kant s transcendental idealism, according to Hegel, we get the idea that the contradictions in the

5 world are put there by the categories of the Understanding. In other words it is thought or reason that create the contradiction in the world not the world itself. Hegel claimed instead that the contradictions had their seat in the very nature of the world Aristotelian logic would say no contradiction can be true yet reality contradicts that truth for In reality a contradiction can be true. Is this glass half full or is it half empty as the Deans glass of the poet colin leslie dean which no one has seen before he

6 points out this Deans glass is in itself both half empty and half full both simultaneously but that does contradict the law of non-contradiction of Aristotelian logic which does say a contradiction cant be true but the Dean glass exists it is true

7 in reality a contradiction can exist and be true thus Aristotelian logic by reality is shown not to be true this finding by colin leslie dean has a number of consequences

8 1) Aristotelian logic does not mirror reality it infact creates a reality Aristotelian logics reality is a reality that does not correspond to our reality. Aristotelian logic creates a particular ontology and reality due to an inbuilt ontology in Aristotelian logic 2) Aristotelian logic infact creates a reality/ontology based on the ontology of Aristotelian logic namely the law of identity and

9 the law of non-contradiction ie in Aristotelian logics reality there are essences and no contradictions leading to a structure of dualisms this reality/ontology with dualisms and essences created by Aristotelian logic as Deans glass shows is not the reality we live in -Just as Newtonian physics is not the physics of the universe just as Euclidean geometry is not the

10 geometry of the universe Aristotelian logic is not the logic of the universe A Dilemma physicists uses Aristotelian logic to arrive at a paradox/contradiction which they say exists but their very Aristotelian logic they use to get that says the paradox/contradiction cant exist -as with Deans glass - either a) they abide by the rules of Aristotelian logic and say the paradox/contradiction cant exist which would mean they are wrong

11 or have made a mistake in saying paradox/contradiction exists or b) they say the paradox/contradiction does exist but then that makes invalid the Aristotelian logic they have used to get the result that the paradox/contradiction does exists thus if their reasonings are invalid how can they logically know the paradox/contradiction does exists The scientists accept their paradox/contradiction conclusion to be true/exist which their Aristotelian logic they use to

12 arrive at that paradox/contradiction conclusion says is not true/exist ie in Schrödinger s cat it is both dead and alive at the same time now the Aristotelian logic they use to get this paradox/contradiction denies that the paradox/contradiction can exist Yet physicists say it does exist thus we have the dilemma as above The way out of the dilemma is just to see that Aristotelian logic is not the logic of the universewhich scientists assume it is

13 without proving it is In other words scientists use Aristotelian logic because they assume it is the logic of the universe but they don t prove Aristotelian logic is the logic of the universe thus their unproven belief that Aristotelian logic is the logic of the universe is just faith based-yet some scientists will criticize religions for being faith based 3) If Aristotelian logic as it did for the nihilists and existentialists leads you to see

14 the universe/reality as meaningless just drop Aristotelian logic for as Deans glass shows logic does not mirror our universe/reality for this logic has no epistemic value in making claims about our reality-which is different to the reality created by Aristotelian logic 4) Aristotelian logic is not an epistemic condition of truth as -

15 reality can show that logic is wrong as Deans glass shows 5) if Aristotelian logic says something cant exist this does not mean that it does not exist as Deans glass shows 6) Science believes the universe is logical ie Aristotelian logic [without proof]- Deans glass shows they are wrong in assuming this 7) Philosophers and scientists believe that if something ends in

16 contradiction or is contradictory then it cant be true- Deans glass shows they are wrong in assuming this 8) Deans glass shows the universe can be contradictory Thus all those philosophical and scientific arguments that dismiss systems that end in contradiction as not being true become untenable Thus we have then that all those systems dismissed for being in

17 contradiction may be in fact be true nevertheless 9) The fact of Deans glass means that universe becomes a much more interesting thing where in terms of logic it can be totally or partially illogical irrational made up of things etc that in terms of Aristotelian logic are a contradiction 10) The fact of Deans glass means that the irrational illogical can be true

18 11) The fact of Deans glass means that science and philosophy lose their right to tell us what the universe is as in their systems the universe is assumed to be logical ie Aristotelian logic where in fact we see it can be illogical ending in contradiction 12) The fact of Deans glass means we have to drop the belief philosophy and science are the only true adjudicators of what

19 the universe is we have to drop the belief in the universal applicability of the scientific method and approach, and the view that empirical science constitutes the most "authoritative" worldview or the most valuable part of human learning to the exclusion of other viewpoints. -As these beliefs are based upon Aristotelian logic and its laws ie that a contradiction cant exist since the universe is

20 logical ie contradiction free-but Deans glass shows these beliefs are wrong 13) Deans glass shows we must face the universe with no help from logic- perhaps even to face the universe by dropping Aristotelian logic and its lawswhich can contradict reality 14) \It makes one wonder what Aristotle would have done if he was aware of Deans glass when he was working it his law

21 of non-contradiction-as Deans glass proves his law of noncontradiction is not true-perhaps perhaps Western philosophy and science would have gone in other directions Now the real interesting thing about deans glass is why no one has seen the contradiction-and consequence before.this half/full glass has been around for decades perhaps centuries- with people

22 asking is it half full or is it half empty Now Professors of philosophy Phd student post doctoral the so called brightest minds in the land etc not one of them has seen what colin leslie dean has seenthe deans glass- and the question is why not? perhaps some tentative answers might be for the sociology of knowledge social psychology etc 1) they are all sheep just going along with old patterns of thinking

23 2) they don t really have a critical/analytic mind 3) they cant think simply and see simple solutions and simple consequences they are just to much of sophisticated thinkers that they cant see real simple problems or simple consequences For those who want to see simple contradictions-and there consequences that no one has seen before

24 more to follow for those interested in more works pointing out the meaninglessness of all products of human thinking then read the following other case studies in the meaninglessness of all view The meaninglessness of mathematics http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/wpcontent/uploads/mathematics.pdf The meaninglessness of all the products of human thinking

25 http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.co m/books/philosophy/contentlessthoug ht.pdf the meaninglessness of science + mathematics http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.com/books/phi losophy/absurd_math_science4.pdf Absurdity of logic http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.co m/books/philosophy/logiccentrismboo k.pdf Absurdity of natural selection

26 http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.co m/books/philosophy/natural_selecti on.pdf Godels theorem ends in meaninglessness http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.co m/books/philosophy/godel5.pdf Godels theorem ends in meaninglessness http://gamahucherpress.yellowgum.co m/books/philosophy/godel5.pdf