RE: What is Dialectics?
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Legend tells that Pythagoras was driven to distraction by proofs that showed that the hypotenuse of the unit square (the square root of two) could not be expressed as a rational number.
it would make sense that drove him crazy since it antagonized him. like einstein was obsessed with disproving quantum physics
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Pythagoras is a figure shrouded in myth. The important part of the story is the impact that he had on thinkers.
The Ancient Greeks would have found paradoxes in all of their attempts at reasoning. Most concepts have a corresponding paradox. So, the question is how does one deal with the paradoxes?
The quantum mechanics aspect is quite interesting. The paradoxes of Zeno showed that the concept of indivisible atoms leads to contradiction. Quantum theory presents observations of divisible atoms. The divisions seem to act in a paradoxical fashion.
BTW: I hold to the opinion that scientists have yet to resolve Zeno's paradoxes. Attempts to resolve one paradox runs afoul of an another paradox.
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