I read that. In a book about a mathematics professor seeking out the origin of the numeral zero. The guy related the concept of zero back to Hindu and Buddhist roots. And that's where "everything is not everything" comes in. Eastern philosophy.
That's quite the concept, yes? As is "anything is true, or false, or both true and false, or neither true or false."
All this reminded me how small my mind is. math And eastern (and western) logic mystifies me, really. But even so, I have to say that to me there is something soothing and comforting in the everything is not everything concept. It can be stretched in my head to mean that even if things suck, that isn't the final view or only way it's ever going to seem. I know that's not really what it has to do with, but i don't think there's any harm in understanding it in a way that makes you feel better.
That's either true, false, not true, both, or neither, right?
Monday, May 25, 2015
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