Sentences with phrase «irreducible contrast»

There is a metaphysically irreducible contrast in human experience if it is always a compromise between pure order and chaos, between normativeness and the unmeasured, between unifying structure and the plurality of things to be unified.

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Neville's claim that Platonism is supported by a religious intuition of the «irreducible dualism between Form and chaos» (CG 67) in reality is simply unconvincing; every metaphysics acknowledges the contrast between order and disorder, but there is no reason to think that that contrast — as experienced — is any more genuine or vivid for a Platonist than for an Aristotelian.