Ontological Antitheses

[Dualism in the History of Ideas, SymbolIsm, Syzygy]

Masculine/Feminine

Thinking/Feeling

Analysis/Synthesis

Knowledge by disassembly/Knowledge by connaturality

Res Extensa/Res Cogitans (Descartes)

Sensation/Reflexion (Hume)

Presentational immediacy/Causal efficacy (Whitehead)

Space/Time (Einstein) Actually, one consequence of Einstein's theories is the replacement of separate concepts of "space" and "time" with the inseparable "spacetime" -- a synthesis, not an antithesis.

Form/Meaning-Content (Panofsky)

Sign/Symbol (Langer)

Conscious/Unconscious (Jung)

Objective/Subjective

Memory/Imagination

Science/Art

Prosaic/Poetic

Tradition/Innovation

Holism / Dissection Isn't this a special case of Knowledge by disassembly/Knowledge by connaturality (or vice versa)?

Induction / Deduction (KarlPopper)

Physical(Energy) / Social(Synergy) (HelmutLeitner)

--EdBuffaloe (Please add more.)

See Also: ExperienceWithoutAbstraction, PersonalConstructTheory


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