The Unity of Opposites Negative Necessity Effect Ends Infinate
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the path up and down is one and the same herculaneum heraclitus
The NEGATIVE thinker sees the visible, feels the tangible, and achieves NOTHING. Negative thinking appears to be more prevalent than positive thinking. It seems that with most people positive thinking requires some effort, whereas negative thinking comes easily and uninvited. This has much to do with education and the environment one has been living in.
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The positive thinker sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Positive thinking is a mental attitude that admits into the mind thoughts, words and images that are conductive to growth, expansion and success. It is a mental attitude that expects good and favorable results. A positive mind anticipates happiness, joy, health and a successful outcome of every situation and action. Whatever the mind expects, it finds.
SWEDISH PROVERD
Fear less, hope more; Eat less, chew more; Whine less, breathe more; Talk less, say more; Love more, and all good things will be yours.
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CHANCE
Necessity
An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.
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Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
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Dalai Lama
cause
effect
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Shallow men believe in luck.
Causality is the relationship between an event (the cause) and a second event (the effect), where the second event is a consequence of the first. The deterministic world-view is one in which the universe is no more than a chain of events following one after another according to the law of cause and effect. To hold this worldview, as an incompatibilist, there is no such thing as “free will�.
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Strong men believe in cause and effect.
Ralph Waldo
However, compatibilists argue that determinism is compatible with, or even necessary for, free will. Existentialists have suggested that people believe that while no meaning has been designed in the universe, we each can provide a meaning for ourselves.
which is our own ability to be the cause of events. This concept of causation does not prevent seeing ourselves as moral agents.
Though philosophers have pointed out the difficulties in establishing theories of the validity of causal relations, there is yet the plausible example of causation afforded daily
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MEANS
ENDS
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the ends may always justify the means.
as long as there is something that justifies the ends.
The dialectic of Means and Ends is of deep historical, ethical and political significance. The “Means” is the activity a subject engages in with the intention of bringing about a certain “End.” The “End” has initially only an ideal existence, and the Realised End – the actual outcome of the adopted Means – may be quite different from the abstract End for which the Means was adopted in the first place.
which are in greater or lesser contradiction with one another throughout their development – constituting a learning process of continual adjustment of both Means and Ends in the light of experience – until, at the completion of the process, Means and End merge in a form of life-activity, which is both its own End and its own Means. The dialectic of Means and Ends is manifested in certain maxims which express aspects of the dialectic in a one-sided or limited way.
Both Means and Ends are therefore processes
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Finite
infinite
Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience. Inifnity is a concept which refers to a quantity without bound or end.
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No finite point has meaning without an infinite reference point. All real numbers except 0 are finite.
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ORDER
CHAOS
Chaos is multiplicity without rhythm.
Order is repetition of units. m.c escher
The fluid
The fixed
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The Unity of Opposites Negative Necessity Effect Ends Infinate
Positive Chance Cause Means Finite
The Unity of Opposites