Single Idea 21985

[catalogued under 2. Reason / B. Laws of Thought / 3. Non-Contradiction]

Full Idea

The so-called world is never and nowhere without contradiction. (...but it is unable to endure it)

Gist of Idea

The so-called world is filled with contradiction

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Science of Logic [1816], I.i.ii.2C(b)), quoted by A.W. Moore - The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics 07.7

Book Reference

Moore,A.W.: 'The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics' [CUP 2013], p.185


A Reaction

[Second bit in Ency I §11] To clarify this one would need to understand 'so-called'. Note that his claim is not that the world contains occasional contradictions, but that the whole of reality is contradictory. I think this idea is nonsense.