When we seek to understand something unlike our everyday world, we rely on the known to make comparisons with and render intelligible the unknown. But the more remote our object is from our study, the more our everyday concepts used in these comparisons will fall short. And the more they fall short, the more we will be forced to use paradox to form concepts of that which is foreign to our everyday world. Paradox is a platform/Spielraum on which we stand so that we may gaze at novel forms.
Commentary and discussion regarding science, faith and culture by Leo White
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