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what is a contradiction

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logical contradiction

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p and not p

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"The ball is red all over and the ball is not red all over."

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"I am six feet tall and I am not six feet tall."

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"I forgot to turn the gas off when we left for vacation, and I didn't forget to turn the gas off when we left for vacation."

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psychological contradiction

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we are bursting with them

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especially the kind that Socrates points out

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Walt Whitman

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"Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes."

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Socrates is unlike Whitman in that he looks to resolve contradictions

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Plato thinks more along the lines of Whitman: part of me wants one thing, and part of me wants something else

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Walt Whitman and his "contains multitudes" is just footnotes to Plato

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that is the point of the dialogue form

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contain contradictions by containing many people who disagree on a topic

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Plato is doing an experiment

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What happens when pure logical, this Socratic stuff when it crashes down on messy, "psychologic" or "anthropologic", i.e. the human mind, the fact that we humans are a kind of ape, conscious apes, but apes

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the divided line

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visible realm (opinion)

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eikasia [εἰκασία]

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imagination

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a human way of dealing with appearances

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inability to perceive whether a perception is an image of something else

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pistis [πίστις]

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persuasive discourse that was elliptical and concentrated on the affect and effect rather than on the representation of the truth

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intellectual realm (knowledge)

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dianoia [διάνοια]

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a type of thinking, specifically about mathematical and technical subjects

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the capacity for, process of, or result of discursive thinking, in contrast with the immediate apprehension that is characteristic of noesis

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neosis [noēsis]

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intellect or intelligence

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as a verb: intellection

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the modern concept intuition

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understanding, mind, thought, reason

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intellectual perception, as in "the mind's eye"