Shall the logic of contradictions be forestalled by verbally neutralizing paradoxical perceptions?
Henry A. Flynt, Jr. Set up three tanks of water, the left very warm, the center medium, the right cold. (John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, Book II, Chapter VIII, section 21.) Put your two hands in the left and right tanks long enough to adapt/desensitize; then put both hands in the center tank, close to one another but not touching. Your tactile senses will report the center tank to be cold and hot (to be a stickler, colder and hotter) at the same time. It can be considered an experience of the logically impossible: the same body, apprehended via one sensory modality, is found to have different temperatures at the same time (mutual exclusivity). in fact, since the temperature differentials can be varied, you have what amounts to a two-valued degree that can be widened or narrowed continuously. I may accept this as an experience of the logically impossible. You have different (mutually exclusive) perceptions of a uniform body via a single modality at one time. Judgmen
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