[lit-ideas] Re: [lit-ideas] Le Pesanteur et la Grâce
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 00:08:49 EDT
In a message dated 8/6/2004 11:51:58 PM Eastern Standard Time,
erin.holder@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Merci :)
Tu est bienvenue (you're welcome).
A little ps. on 'contradictory opposition', since, as my previous e-mail
read, "For contradictory, contrary, subcontrary, and subaltern opposition, see
the first terms." -- and I did.
It is interesting that 'opposition' seems like the strict translation -- in
Latin, 'oppositio' -- of Gk. 'antithesis', since 'thesis' is 'position'. The
idea of contraDICTION, on the other hand, involves the idea of 'saying', and
is foreign to the concept of 'antithesis', methinks.
Perhaps, one may say, it could help if S. Weil may have illustrated what she
meant by some example (or other) but then this was all posthumous, and also
some philosophers think it is debasing to gravity (lack of grace) to provide
_illustrations_ to their grand general theses (Don't know if this is the case
with Weil). (Incidentally, in German, "Weil" means "Because").
Cheers,
JL
contradictory opposition (in Logic):
the opposition between two contradictory propositions, i.e. such as differ
from each other both in quantity and quality -- e.g.
All A is B:
Some A is not B
-- both of which cannot, and one of which must, be true.
Quotes:
1628 T. Spencer Logick 297
The assumption in this argument is Contradictory to the latter part of the
proposition..In the like sort, the Conclusion is contradictory to the first
part of the proposition.
1698 Norris Pract. Disc. (1707) IV. 229
To make an objection good, it must not only be a Truth, but a contradictory
Truth.
1865 Trollope Belton Est. ix. 94
Two answers which were altogether distinct, and contradictory one of the
other.
1887 Fowler Deduct. Logic 79
It is a rule of practical Logic that a contradictory should always in
disputations be used in preference to a contrary opposition.
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